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Lattice Butterfly
| Latin Name | Chaetodon rafflesi | ||||||||||||
| Common Name | Lattice Butterfly | ||||||||||||
| Also known as | Raffles' Butterflyfish | ||||||||||||
| Fast Facts | This butterfly can sometimes be difficult to acclimate to the home aquarium. Providie it with peaceful surroundings, a varied diet and lots of hiding places. It may quarrel with other chaetodontids (especially those that are similar in color), but usually ignores unrelated fish species. Live foods, pieces of live rock with some encrusting invertebrates and algae on them, or a tank with a lush growth of filamentous algae will assist in their acclimation. When sleeping, or stressed, the color of this species becomes darker and it exhibits a dark blotch on the anterior part of the body. It will often display this color pattern during the day for sometime after it is initially placed in its new home, but even so it usually feeds and behaves normally. | ||||||||||||
| Sizes | Small/Around 1"-2" Medium/Around 3"-4" |
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| Range in Nature | Indo Pacific | ||||||||||||
| Minimum Aquarium Size | 75 | ||||||||||||
| Diet and Feeding | Carnivorous, feed marine fish, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp and frozen preparations. | ||||||||||||
| Ease of Care(5=easy, 1=difficult) |  |
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| Reef Aquarium Compatibility | In nature it feeds on a variety of sessile invertebrates, including some of the ornamental species we desire in reef tank. | ||||||||||||
| Related Fish | Auriga Butterfly- Hawaii, Black Velvet Angelfish, Blackback Butterfly, Blue Line Angel, Blue Spotted Angelfish, Burgess Butterfly, Conspicillatus Angel, Declevis Butterfly, Easter Island Buterfly, Falcula Butterfly: False, Fremblii Bluestripe Butterfly, Japanese Golden Butterfly, Japanese Masked Butterfly, Klein's Butterfly, Lemon Butterfly, Litus Butterfly, Mertensi Butterfly, Mesoleucos Butterfly, Mitratus Butterfly, Nippon Butterfly, Pakistani Butterfly, Pearlscale Butterfly, Pearlscale Butterfly: RED SEA, Pelewensis Butterfly, Personifer Angel, Personifer Angel Male, Punctato Butterfly, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Rainfordi Butterfly AUSTRALIA, Red Sea Raccoon Butterfly, Saddleback Butterfly, Scribbled Angel, Scribbled Angel- Male, Semilarvatus Butterfly Red Sea, Singapore Angel, Teardrop Butterfly, Tinker's Butterfly, True Falcula Butterfly, Vagabond Butterfly, More Butterflyfish | ||||||||||||
| Availability | Not often available and never plentiful. | ||||||||||||
| Add to Cart | Lattice Butterfly
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Availability is not guaranteed and is subject to change without notice. Note: Because these are living animals, and not made in a factory, actual specimens will vary and will not look identical to the image provided. Sizes stated are approximate.
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