Orange Spotted Filefish Facts and Photographs Seaunseen

#1 Perpetual Novice Active Member Reef Tank 365 Joined May 16, 2019 Messages 423 Reaction score 335 Rating - 0% 0 0 0 so I have two tanks. One established and one that's just coming out of fallow. About a week ago I was at my LFS and saw they had gotten in some orange spotted filefish.

An orangespotted filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris, is seen in front of its favorite food

The orange spotted filefish or harlequin filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris, is a filefish in the family Monacanthidae found on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Oceans. The orangespotted filefish is a different species and refers to Cantherhines pullus.

Orange Spotted Filefish habitat and characteristics

2.2. Orange-spotted Filefish. Another cool filefish specie that you might come across while scuba diving is the Orange-spotted Filefish (scientific name: Cantherhines pullus). What sets this fish apart from the rest? It has two unique features: a white spot on the upper base of its tail and usually a smaller spot underneath.

Orange Spotted Filefish Facts and Photographs Seaunseen

Description: The orange-spotted filefish, scientifically known as Oxymonacanthus longirostris, is a species of filefish belonging to the family Monacanthidae. These fish are commonly found in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, including the Red Sea, the Maldives, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.

Orange Spotted Filefish Facts and Photographs Seaunseen

The orange-spotted filefish has evolved to absorb and re-emit smelly compounds from the coral it eats, a chemical mask that makes the fish smell like its food. This act of olfactory camouflage.

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The orange filefish is found in the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia (Canada) to Bermuda and the northern Gulf of Mexico and off of Brazil. In the eastern Atlantic its range is Cape Blanc and Mauritania to Angola. Habitat

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The Harlequin Filefish or Orange Spotted Filefish is pale blue with about eight longitudinal rows of orange-yellow patches. In the wild it feeds almost exclusively on Acropora polyps. They are often offered for sale in the aquarium trade, but few survive long in captivity.

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Most members of the family fall in the 4- to 12-inch (10- to 30-cm) range, although there is one "giant" that attains more than 3 feet (90 cm) in length: the scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus) reaches a length of 43 inches (108 cm). It is found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

Orange Spotted Filefish Facts and Photographs Seaunseen

The orangespotted filefish is a species of filefish described by Ranzani in 1842. and it is native to shallow waters in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Orange Spotted Filefish Facts and Photographs Seaunseen

The Harlequin or Orange-spotted filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) from the Indo-Pacific is truly stunning, displaying a psychedelic livery of orange spots on a bright green background. It's also a specialist feeder, being an obligate corallivore feeding exclusively in the wild on SPS coral polyps — specifically Acropora.

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A small slender greenish leatherjacket with rows of yellow spots and dashes along the sides and a small black blotch on the tail. Males have bristles on the tail base. Harlequin Filefish shelter amongst branches of Acropora corals at night. They not only resemble coral branches, but they also smell like them, enabling the filefish to remain.

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The orange-spot filefish is still a great challenge to house in captivity, and most successes with Oxymonacanthus have taken place in reef aquariums where the filefish had the option to munch on a little bit of SPS corals to supplement its diet.

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The orangespotted filefish (Cantherhines pullus). On the caudal peduncle there is a moderate-sized white spot, often with a smaller white spot below it. The body is speckled with small orange spots, some of which have brown centres, and similar sized white spots. The first spine of the dorsal fin is located above the eye.

Orange Spotted Filefish Facts and Photographs Seaunseen

Keeping Orange Spotted Filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) | Humble.Fish & Reef Community © 2010-2022 XenForo Ltd. © Jason Axelrod of I get a lot of questions on my fab five (orange spotted filefish), so I thought I would share my experience with them. Warning, This is going to be long ;).

Orange Spot Filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris)

Orangespotted Filefish are commonly found in pairs and small groups among lagoons and tropical coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific. Orangespotted Filefish have a blue-green base coloration with a multitude of yellow-orange spots and blotches over the entire body that solidly colors the forward dorsal "trigger" in a line to the upper snout.