Short-tail bristle-tooth
- Added by Dave_P
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- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Maximum Size
- 16cm, 6.5"
- Minimum Tank Size
- 251 to 500 litres
- Care level
- Medium
- Reef Compatibility
- Yes
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Aggressive to similar species
- 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 which should have a high content of algae
- Origin (from Fishbase)
- Western Pacific: Ogasawara Islands, south through the Philippines and Indonesia to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia, east to Samoa in the South Pacific, to the Marshall Islands.
- Image Copyright notice
- By National Park of American Samoa [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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