Yellow Blotch Rabbitfish: Everything You Need to Know
- Mar 25, 2022
- Anshika Mishra
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Let's learn everything about the Yellow Blotch Rabbitfish, also known as the Orange Spotted Foxface Rabbitfish. They are a great fish to have in the tank and get huge.
PRICE: Usually, you will see them going for about $80 each. You can get a little higher up than your regular Rabbitfish, but definitely, because they have some gnarly colors on them that you can have running around in your tank.
TANK SIZE: We recommend a 120-gallon that gives you a good six-foot-long tank because they are very active swimmers once they are comfortable in the tank.
CARE LEVEL: Moderate, mainly because they can be pretty shy, and they are less prone to eat at the beginning whenever you first get them in the new tank. So, be patient with them, feed them a whole bunch of different food during your first couple of weeks with them, and try to help them get used to the tank.
TEMPERAMENT: Peaceful. It can be shy at the beginning, and it can take them a few months to get used to it and come out and start swimming in the open.
REEF SAFE: With Caution. 80% of the time, they are safe in your reef. However, there have been rare occurrences where they are nipping at your LPS corals, some of those more soft corals.
But mostly, it happens when they are now being adequately fed. So, if you manage to keep their bellies full, they will not be chasing down and eating on your corals.
ORIGIN: They come from Indonesia.
Water Parameter
- TEMPERATURE: 72-78 degrees Fahrenheit
- dKH: 8-12
- pH: 8.1-8.4
- SALINITY: 1.020- 1.025
Appearance
MAX SIZE: They can get a whopping 10-inches long. So, it can get very large. Although juveniles come pretty small, you can get one with three to four inches as a juvenile, but they grow pretty fast. So therefore, you want to have a nice-sized tank if you have a smaller one like him going in as a juvenile, and you will enjoy an upgrade.
COLORS: It is the reason behind the popularity of the fish. You get a nice silver body with a blue highlight at the top and then the orange spots all over his body from the head to the tail. It is a very pretty fish swimming around in your tank.
Diet
They are an omnivore, but you want to ensure that you are feeding them plenty of algae. Get some sea veggies, cut them into small squares, and stick them on a clip in the tank, and it will eat through the day.
Also, they feed on pellets, flakes, frozen cubes like Brine and Mysis shrimps. But, you want to keep the algae in the tank because it will keep their health up and their colors looking great and keep them out about swimming around.
Compatibility
They can be housed with other types of Rabbitfish and can be paired with their types. They do well in predator tanks because they get huge, and they are also venomous.
So, when you are handling these, put them into your tank, be careful because they will be stressed, and use those fins and spread them out. So therefore, figure out where he is before jumping into the tank, and you will do just fine.
If it is in a predator tank, it will do well because of its enormous size and will do great in a reef tank, and he is not going to be very territorial. He is not going to be aggressive towards your other fish. So it can also do well in just a fish-only tank with live rock.
Feeding
If they are very shy and are not eating enough, along with hiding back in their cave too many days in a row, try to lure them out with food. You can also try to feed pellets as they sink and fall behind the cave they hide in.
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