Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Not Reef Tank Suitable
Not Suitable for Fish-Only Tank
Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Red Sea and South Africa to Marquesan and Society Islands, north to Southern Japan, and south to Australia, and Lord Howe Island.
Size: 3 inches (8 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabits silty bottom areas in lagoons, often seagrass beds on coastal reef slopes and is usually found at depths between 3 - 300 feet (1 - 90 m) where it feeds strictly on small bottom dwelling crustaceans.
General Husbandry: Has a mottled brownish body. Not purposely collected for the trade.
Taxonomy:
Order: Gasterosteiformes
Suborder: Syngnathoidei
Family: Pegasidae
Genus: Eurypegasus
FYI: Must have a steady diet of ‘live’ foods, i.e., fortified live brine shrimp, and/or copepods/amphipods and will ‘only’ feed off the bottom substrate, which should be wide-ranging/quite extensive in captivity. Must be fed five to ten times a day when in captivity.
An extremely poor shipper.
Shown here for identification only.
Unsuitable for the home aquarium.
Best left in the wild.
