Blackburn's butterflyfish
- Added by Dave_P
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- Other common name(s)
- Brownburnie
- Latin
- Chaetodon blackburnii
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Fishbase Url
- http://www.fishbase.org/summary/8015
- Maximum Size
- 13cm, 5.25"
- Minimum Tank Size
- 101 to 250 Litres
- Care level
- Advanced Only
- Reef Compatibility
- No
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Can be kept as mated pair
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Compatibility with hard corals
- Do not keep with hard corals
- Compatibility with soft corals
- Do not keep with soft corals
- Compatibility with Invertabrates
- Do not keep with invertebrates
- Feeding
- In the wild has a diet of coral polyps. There has been very little success in adapting this over to aquarium foods.
- Diet
- Corallivore
- Origin (from Fishbase)
- Western Indian Ocean: Kenya to about 33°S, Madagascar, and Mauritius.
- Image Copyright notice
- By Philippe Bourjon (Don de l'auteur) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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