General
Needs a dimly lit aquarium
Randall’s tilefish
- Added by Dave_P
- Create date
- Latin
- Hoplolatilus randalli
- Family
- Malacanthidae
- Maximum Size
- 15cm, 6"
- Minimum Tank Size
- 251 to 500 litres
- Care level
- Difficult
- Reef Compatibility
- Yes
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Aggressive to similar species
- Prone to jumping
- Compatibility with hard corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with soft corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with Invertabrates
- No Issues
- Feeding
- Can be difficult to initially feed the fish. Try live foods to initiate a feeding. Once accustomise readily accepts aquarium foods.
Mixture of good quality flake, pellets, frozen food for carnivores
- Diet
- Carnivore
- 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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