Ornate butterflyfish, Chaetodon ornatissimus

Chaetodon ornatissimus, commonly known as the Ornate butterflyfish, is an unreal looking medium-sized butterflyfish. Their bodycolour is white which continous all the way into the unpaired fins. They head, paired fins and all around their fins are yellow. On their head they've black stripes which also flows all around their body in the fins. On their body they've orange diagonal stripes to compliment this amazing looking fish.

These fish are quite peaceful to most other fish, but might haress similar looking fish. They live mostly solitary as juveniles between branching corals and the more they mature, the more they move around, usually as pairs. In an aquarium they can best be kept alone unless a proven pair can be found. Although this is an absolutely stunning fish to watch, they're obligate corallivores and thus need to eat corals to survive. This makes them not suitable for a fish-only tank and they can only be kept in a large tank with a lot of fast growing corals where considerable damage to the corals is accepted. Feeding them a varied diet of live and frozen meaty foods can help to minimize the damage to the corals if alternative food is accepted. A real specialist fish!