Anyone ever had a Siganus chrysospilos (orange spot rabbitfish)

[brad23]

These fish look amazing, and i need a rabbitfish. I came accross this one and i don't think I've seen it in the hobby.

Here is a pic, anyone tried keeping one of these?

http://www.pbase.com/clippo/image/59544082

 

[WayneL333]

I think there are like 3 species of orange spotted rabbitfish that all look very similar. Here are a couple of pictures of mine and no I do not know which species I have

 

[brad23]

Those are some nice fish, you had any problems with it?

 

[brad23]

bump

 

[Monkeyfish]

Wayne - Beautiful assortment of fish!

 

[WayneL333]

thanks monkeyfish!

brad: no problems at all, he actually keeps the bubble algae down to a bare minimum.

 

[claytonkelly2004]

be careful they eat zoos and other things. I just bought on on tuesday and when I came home on Thursday he was spinning around in my 8 inch gigas just taking chuncks out of it. I had to rip the tank apart last night and get him out. I hope my Gigas lives.

 

[karid]

Also, don't the orangespot rabbitfish get really huge? Probably too big for a 75g (if I remember right).

 

[Michelle L]

Not to speak in place of Brad because I'm sure he'll be back, but he is currently setting up a 280 gallon tank.

 

[karid]

Ah cool. Then that will be plenty of room. I'm looking into getting a rabbitfish for my 90g so have been trying to pay attention to these things

 

[Michelle L]

You're a good reefer then.

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

i've never owned one but i know someone who did....thing was over a foot long and all those pretty orange spots faded away. when it got to large for his tank he gave it to a lfs that put it in a huge sump . and they had a large display that it would have fit in... it was to plain...sorry

 

[brad23]

There also three different types of rabbit fish that are called orange spot or gold spot.

Siganus guttatus (ugly more common one)

The other two are

Siganus chrysospilos (has a blue body)

Siganus punctatus (this is the one in the pics above which has a green tone to its body color)