What is a foureye butterflyfish?
Foureye butterflyfish, also known as four-eye butterfly and four-eye butterfly, belongs to the Perciformes butterflyfish family and butterflyfish genus. It is a kind of tropical marine fish that lives in coral reef areas. The four-spot butterflyfish is widely distributed in the western Atlantic Ocean, and is mostly active in areas with lush coral reefs, feeding on various organic debris and corals, etc. Its unique eye-like markings are loved by people.
What does the foureye butterflyfish look like?
Foureye butterflyfish, round body, blunt snout, yellow. There is a large black spot with a white border near the caudal peduncle. There are dozens of narrow dark oblique fine lines on the side of the body, the upper part is inclined from the head to the anal fin; the lower part is inclined from the pelvic fin to the dorsal fin, forming a zigzag shape. The body is pale grey, changing to pale to pale yellow on the sides of the body, with a black stripe on the head. The caudal, dorsal, and anal fin rays each have a stripe with a black edge, and the pelvic fins are yellow. The dorsal fin has 13 spines and 17-20 soft rays; the anal fin has 3 spines and 16-17 soft rays. Body length up to 7.5 cm.
foureye butterflyfish living habits
This fish inhabits shallow reefs and usually occurs singly or in pairs. Carnivorous, feeding on six corals, polychaetes, gorgonians and tunicates. Mild and approachable.
foureye butterflyfish rearing
The foureye butterflyfish needs to be fed with seawater with higher salinity, preferably maintained at a specific gravity of about 1.025. They are very easy to raise, especially in terms of feeding, as long as they are the usual butterfly fish feed, they almost never pick their mouths, and even continue to eat when they are infected with some minor diseases. However, this kind of fish is very timid, and it takes a long time to come up to eat every time it is fed. It seems that this is its natural life-saving strategy. Mixing a small group of other butterflyfish would ease the urgency, which should be true for butterflyfish, not just foureye butterflyfish, but maybe all butterflyfish.
