Longnose butterflyfish – Forcipiger Longirostris
Species name: Forcipiger Longirostris
Common names: Longnose butterflyfish
Family: Chaetodontidae (Butterflyfishes)
Order: Perciformes (perch-likes)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Maximum Lench: 8.6 in.
Minimum tank size: 70 gal.
Hardiness: Medium
Aggressiveness: Teritorial. Only kept one in each tank.
Reef Compatibility: Excellent
Diet: It represent a challenge to feed beacause of its tiny mouth limit it to small items. It will accept all types of foods and its diet should include small meaty food, crustacean flesh and mysid shrimp. One good way to provide appropriate food is to keep it in a tank with live rock where it can find prey such as amphipods.
Additional information:
Forcipiger Longirostris is found on coral reefs of the Indo-West and Central Pacific at depts of 3 to 70 m where food and hiding space is plentiful. It has a compressed body with a very long snout and can be mistaken with Forcepsfish F.flavissimus. It can be distinguished by its smaller mouth gape, longer snout and by rows of small black spots on the breast. It has 10 to 11 dorcal fin while the Forcepsfish has 12 to 13.
It should be keep in an aquarium of 70 gallons or more with clean, well-filtered water. Water condition should be as follows: Temperature between 76 and 80° F with a pH of 8.0 to 8.4 and a gravity of 1.022. A low gravity of 1.020 would help allow higher gas diffusion and would reduce the risk of parasite.
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