Common Name: Saddled Butterflyfish
Species Name: Chaetodon ephippium Cuvier, 1831
Range: Widespread in the Indo-Pacific.
Size: up to 9 inches (23 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit shallow reef areas with rich coral growths at depths between 3 - 80 feet (1 - 25 m)
General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C) and natural diet consists of live coral polyps, worms, algae, and crustaceans. Requires a variety of enriched frozen foods (meaty and algae) which can be supplemented with flake foods with numerous feedings per day. May feed on filamentous algae and on bottom invertebrates. One per tank. If there's such a thing as the top best ten butterflies to keep, this is one of them.
Aquarium Suitability: * ** & * * * *
Anemonefishes - Angelfishes - Anthias - Assessors - Bannerfish - Basslets (Dottybacks and Grammas) - Batfishes - Blennies - Boxfishes - Brotulas - 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
Or go back to Animal Library Index Page...
* - 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.