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Sweet Lips Fish
The attractive red-and-white clown parrotfish (Boloney bicolor) fits into any largish fish-only setup. This is a marine fish in which the adult markings are totally different to those of the juveniles. Sweet lips fishes are very colorful and they are decorated with the black marking on all over the body due to this they look more beautiful. Indo- Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are home to sweet lips fish. This fish lives in rocky area and coral reefs. Be careful before purchasing the sweet lips fish as it needs a big aquarium to live and you have to provide a lot of rocks, caves and fissures to her so that she can hide herself. Sweet lips fish needs a lot of places to hide it because this fish come out only when it is dark. Sweet lips fish is quiet in nature and you should put it in that aquarium in which there lives other non-aggressive fishes. Don’t put the small fishes in the aquarium otherwise they will be eaten up by sweet lips fish. This fish is shy in nature and it loves to eat meaty food such as worms, shrimp, clams etc. Sweet lips fishes eat invertebrates, worms and crustaceans. It is a challenge for the owners of the aquarium which have sweet lips fishes as they don’t live in captivity and it’s very difficult to keep them alive in the imprisonment. There is one more difficulty with the sweet lips fishes which is their breeding, it is difficult to have a successful breeding of them. Temperature requirement for the sweet lips fish is 72°F to 78°F Clown Sweet Lips FishClown sweet lips fish is also known as Harlequin sweet lips fish; its scientific name is Plectorrhinchus Chaetodonoides. This sweet lips fish is a marine fish; it can grow up to 72 cm. Clown sweet fish lips needs an aquarium of minimum 200 gallon. Temperature requirement of this fish is 24°C to 28°C. This sweet lips fish is very sweet and gorgeous. With the help of their pectoral fins they paddle and roll their body. Clown sweet lips fish would like to eat black worms, live shrimp, marine frozen food etc and feed it at least 3 times a day.Spotted Sweet Lips FishThe scientific name of the spotted sweet lips fish is Plectorrhinchus Chaetodonoides. Be careful before purchasing this sweet lips fish as it needs a lot of extra care and attention therefore it is quite difficult to keep it. It can grow up to maximum 5 inches. You can observe a drastic change in its body color from its childhood to its matureness. |
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Sweet lips fish has very juicy lips from where it got its name. It belongs to Haemulidae family. These families are a strange hotchpotch of fish, closely related to the snappers, but different in many ways. Many members of the family grow to about 60cm (24in) in the wild, but they are not regarded as food fish. In the aquarium they are far slower to adapt to captivity than other species, and very slow growers. Their natural diet consists of tiny crustaceans - they require huge amounts of these in order to thrive, bandit is very difficult for the home Aquarius to provide this diet.