Common Name: Blackspot Tuskfish
Species Name: Choerodon schoenleinii (Valenciennes, 1839)
Range: West Pacific Ocean: Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, Australia
Size: Up to 40 in (100 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit lagoon flat sandy or weedy areas
General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 76 - 83°F (25 - 28°C) and has a natural diet of benthic invertebrate. These none-burrowing wrasses will eat snails, clams, shrimp, brittle stars, sea stars, and urchins. Requires a meaty diet consisting of various enriched fish and invertebrate flesh with two or three feedings per week. Rarely seen in the trade and really only suited for public aquariums.
Aquarium Suitability: * * & * * * *
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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.