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Threadfin Butterflyfish – Chaetodon auriga
The threadfin butterflyfish comes from the Indo-Pacific ocean region. The threadfin does well in an aquarium that has plenty of active and healthy live rock.
Maximum Size: The threadfin butterflyfish should grow to a maximum size of 9.0 inches
Minimum Tank Size: The minimum tank size should be 75 gallons
Care Level: The threadfin butterflyfish is a pretty hardy fish to maintain. On a scale of 1 –10, (10 being easy) it would rate a “6-7”. The tank should already be cycled.
Tank Conditions: - Temperature 77-79°F; Specific gravity: 1.021 – 1.024; pH: 8.1 – 8.3; Nitrates should be no more than 10 ppm.
Color: The threadfin butterflyfish – as picture shows is almost has a bold black stripe running vertically through its eyes. The front of the fish is white with diagonal stripes running the length of the fish. The rear of the fish is yellow with fewer or no diagonal stripes with a black dot (false eye) behind its dorsal fin.
 Temperament: This is a good fish. It can ultimately become aggressive to other butterflyfish and fish closely colored as well as more meek fish kept in the aquarium. You can possibly maintain a male and female together – they should be introduced to the tank together.
Reef Compatible: Will eat at and possibly destroy hard and soft corals as well as invertebrates. This is definitely not a candidate for a reef aquarium.
Diet: The threadfin butterflyfish is an basically a carnivore Typical meaty foods such as brine shrimp, clams, fish meat etc that can be purchased from your local store should be provided.
Habitat: Provide with plenty of hiding places. Good water circulation is important as well as high quality water maintenance. Filtration should include a protein skimmer and activated carbon filtration.
Compatibility: Butterflyfish in general can be kept with cardinalfish, catfish, filefish, firefish, gobies, grammas, rabbitfish to name a few and they should not be housed with groupers, sharks, lionfish or rays and can be a problem if housed with damselfish, basslets, surgeonfish, triggerfish and certain wrasses.
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