Undulate / Oranglined Triggerfish
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Scientific Name: Balistapus undulatus Price: Upon Request Origin: Indo-Pacific Family: Balistidae NOT AVAILABLE NOW |
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Other Names: Balistapus undulates, Undulate Triggerfish, Orange-lined Triggerfish, Orangetailed Triggerfish |
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Technical Info
Temperature: 22 - 26 ℃
pH: 8.1 - 8.4
GH: 8 - 12
SG: 1.020 - 1.025
Max size: 30 cm
Min Tank size: 230 Ltr
Position in Aqua: Top swimmer
Description
The Undulate / Oranglined Triggerfish is a vividly colored saltwater aquarium fish. It has an attractive, emerald-green body with yellow-orange vertical stripes. This salt water fish has a strangely shaped body that looks more like an alien then a fish!
Food
Feeds on a variety of benthic organisms such as algae, echinoderms, fishes, mollusks, tunicates, sponges, and hydrozoans. All kinds of meaty foods including starfish and sea urchins, snails, mussels, calcareous algae, and pieces of passing fish.
Breeding
Has not been bred in an aquarium.
Compatible with
The Undulate Triggerfish is a very aggressive species, even compared to other aggressive species, including other triggerfish, groupers, lionfish or even sharks. Typically it is best to keep this species as a single specimen in the home aquarium, but it is possible to keep with other large aggressive species in a large aquarium.
Note
The Undulate Triggerfish has the ability to make a grunting sound which some think they use as a form of communication.