Title: Saltwater/Marine Fish
Species #: 49
Common Name: Matted Filefish Scientific Name: Acreichthys tomentosus Kingdom: Animilia
Phylum: Acreichthys
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Monacanthidae
Geography / Habitat: This fish originates from Indonesia and prefers to live in a 30 gallon tank, with a water temperature of 72-78 degrees. Life Strategy: These fish have been known to only spawn in captivity and males are normally larger than the males, having fine bristle like hairs on each side of their body down the caudal peduncle or base of the tail. Food / Feed Strategy: Their diet should include shave shrimp, squid, scallops, Mysis shrimp, freeze, dries krill soaked in a vitamin supplement, and frozen marine algae. They should be fed small quantities of food several times a day.
Body Form or Style: Depressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Supraterminal Citation: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html