Raccoon Butterfly fish

Some more tropical reef fishes to look at, we have a load of these, you may have noticed them as the colourful ones. That's not a shot at our local species, because fish like the cuckoo wrasse (who will get a blog at some point) is a colourful fish, but for the most part, and compared to tropical reef fish, the cold water species look drab. (I can say this, because they're my favourite).

The Raccoon Butterfly fish (Chaetodon lunula) is in my opinion the best of our butterfly fish. Only because it's named after a Raccoon. I'm sure you can spot why it's named after a raccoon (those black patches around its eyes). It's a really neat looking butterfly fish.

They like to eat soft corals and anemones; much to our dismay. The anemones might be able to avoid predation if they have Clownfish living in them protecting them, otherwise they're a tasty treat for a butterfly fish. Soft corals can look awesome, a really awesome looking soft coral called Xenia would be eye candy for our tanks. Best way I can describe them would be they look like lots of feathery hands grasping at nothing. Unfortunately we can't share these soft corals with you because within minutes of putting them in the butterfly fish (and I'm looking at you raccoon butterfly fish) will have demolished it and be swimming around bellies full looking mightily proud of themselves. Ok, maybe I just imagine that as fish don't mock us, I don't think.

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