Common Name: Lined Butterflyfish
Species Name: Chaetodon lineolatus Cuvier, 1831
Range: Western Pacific Ocean: New Guinea, and east coast of Australia
Size: up to 12 inches (30 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit inner reef areas rich in coral growth in depths between 10 - 500 feet (3 - 165 m)
General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C) and natural diet consists of live corals, worms, algae, and hydroids, and possibly anemones. Fairly easy to acclimate in the aquarium and will accept a wide variety of foods, with numerous feedings per day. A large butterflyfish and requires an aquarium 125 gallons or larger. One per tank. Not only can it not be trusted with stony corals, it's not safe with soft corals.
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
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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.