Common Name: False Cleanerfish
Species Name: Aspidontus taeniatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
Range: Indo-Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island and Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Line, Marquesas, and Tuamotu Islands, southern Japan, New South Wales and throughout Micronesia
Size: up to 4 inches (10cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit lagoons, subtidal reef flats and outer reef slopes
General Husbandry: Prefer a temperature range of 72 - 79°F (22 - 26°C). Feeds on the skin of other fishes. An amazing lookalike of the cleaner Wrasse Labroides dimidatus. Not something you want in your aquarium!
Aquarium Suitability: * * *
Anemonefishes - Angelfishes - Anthias - Assessors - Bannerfish - Basslets (Dottybacks and Grammas) - Batfishes - Blennies - Boxfishes - Butterflyfishes - Cardinalfishes - Catfishes - Cuttlefish - Damselfishes - Dartfishes - Dragonets - Drums - Eels - Filefishes - Flashlight fishes - Flatheads - Frogfishes - Goatfishes - Gobies - Groupers - Hamlets - Hawkfishes - Helmut Gurnards - Jacks - Jawfishes - Lion fishes - Livebearing Brotula - Lizardfishes - Mollies - Moorish Idol - Parrotfishes - Pinecone fishes - Pipefishes - Porcupine fishes - Pufferfishes - Rabbitfishes - Rays - Sand Perches - Scats - Scorpionfishes - Seabasses - Seahorses - Sea Moths - Sharks - Shrimpfishes - Snappers - Soldierfishes - Spinecheeks - Squirrelfishes - Surgeonfishes (Tangs) - Sweetlips - Tilefishes - Triggerfishes - Trumpetfishes - Wrasses
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* - Suited for the reef aquarium;
** - Better suited for the fish-only aquarium;
*** - Better left in nature;
**** - Needing an aquarium larger than 125 gallons; and,
***** - Needing their own private environment/special tankmates.