Blue gudgeon
- Added by Dave_P
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- Latin
- Ptereleotris microlepis
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Fishbase Url
- http://www.fishbase.org/summary/4381
- Maximum Size
- 13cm, 5.25"
- Minimum Tank Size
- 101 to 250 Litres
- Care level
- Easy
- Reef Compatibility
- Yes
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Can be kept as mated pair
- Introduce simultaneously
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Do not house with boisterous species
- Prone to jumping
- Compatibility with hard corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with soft corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with Invertabrates
- No Issues
- Feeding
- Mixture of good quality flake, pellets, frozen food for carnivores
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Origin (from Fishbase)
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to the Line and Tuamoto islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef.
- Image Copyright notice
- By Izuzuki (http://www.izuzuki.com/) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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