Common Name: Convict Blenny
Species Name: Pholidichthys leucotaenia Bleeker, 1856
Range: Western Pacific.
Size: Up to 4 inches (10 cm)
Natural Environment: In the daytime they appear in large schools of juveniles along protected drop-off areas. Adults live in substrate borrows.
General Husbandry: Temperature range of 76 - 82°F (25 - 28°C) and natural diet consists mainly of zooplankton. A hardy fish, and requires a meaty diet and cave areas. Feed two or three times a day.
Aquarium Suitability: *
Anemonefishes - Angelfishes - Anthias - Assessors - Bannerfish - Basslets (Dottybacks and Grammas) - Batfishes - Blennies - Boxfishes - Butterflyfishes - Cardinalfishes - Catfishes - Convict Blenny - Cuttlefish - Damselfishes - Dartfishes - Drums - Dragonets - 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.