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Old 01-20-2008, 04:30 PM   #1
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well no moorish idol you say


well ive allways wanted a moorish idol but i don't want to kill one so i'm not going to get one plus i dont have a large enough tank or the luck to keep one so i got a poor mans moorish idol a butterfly fish
heres a pic of it in the bag getting acclimated


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Old 01-20-2008, 04:32 PM   #2
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Cool, is that a Heniochus butterfly? I think those can get up to about 8", but they are neat fish.



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Old 01-20-2008, 04:34 PM   #3
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cool fish! although i dont have any experiance with them but i think i remember hearing that they eat corals.



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Old 01-20-2008, 04:38 PM   #4
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Old 01-20-2008, 04:42 PM   #5
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yes it is but when he/she gets to big i can put him in my 220
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Great plan. I've seen small groups of those kept in larger tanks, they're fun to watch.
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no they are mostly reef safe ive heard of then eating dyeing inverts but there dyeing so

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Old 01-20-2008, 04:46 PM   #8
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the place where i bought it from had somewhere around 20 in a 600 gallon it was really cool
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