menace
12/02/2004, 03:30 PM
Last week I was at my lfs and purchased a doctorfish?. He is about
1 inch maybe 1.25 inch. I was told he came in as a bahianus/doctorfish. While searching around I have found that bahianus has common name of ocean surgeon and chirurgus has common name of doctorfish. Im not sure which one it is. I can get a pic later tonight when I get home. Both are similar looking. I think it looks more like chirurgus, but being small I dont know that the colors are fully developed. He is mostly lighter and darker grey, has black mark near tail and tail is white. He does have fine dark lines on the sides. Top and bottom fins have blue edging.
Currently he is in my 20 long with a mandarin and pj cardinal along with various corals. I know this is not the tank for this fish. I plan on getting a bigger tank in the begining of january. I was planning on a 90gal, but now Im not sure if the 90 will be good either.? I've read they can get 12-14 inch. lfs told me he would probably be good in the 20 for about a year?
1 inch maybe 1.25 inch. I was told he came in as a bahianus/doctorfish. While searching around I have found that bahianus has common name of ocean surgeon and chirurgus has common name of doctorfish. Im not sure which one it is. I can get a pic later tonight when I get home. Both are similar looking. I think it looks more like chirurgus, but being small I dont know that the colors are fully developed. He is mostly lighter and darker grey, has black mark near tail and tail is white. He does have fine dark lines on the sides. Top and bottom fins have blue edging.
Currently he is in my 20 long with a mandarin and pj cardinal along with various corals. I know this is not the tank for this fish. I plan on getting a bigger tank in the begining of january. I was planning on a 90gal, but now Im not sure if the 90 will be good either.? I've read they can get 12-14 inch. lfs told me he would probably be good in the 20 for about a year?