Chaetodon mitratus
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zebrasoma17
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No personal experience with this species but I have always been a butterfly fanatic. Check out Scott Michael's Angelfishes & Butterflyfishes (2004 TFH Microcosm) page 167 for photos of adult and juvenile. Adult clearly appears more yellow and less white.
zebrasoma17
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Again, no personal experience but 2 more sources: Rudie Kuiter's "Photo Guide To Fishes of the Maldives" (1998/2001 Atoll Editions) page 127 has photos of both adult and juvenile. Adult has very little white. Juvenile has more white and a black eye spot at the rear of the dorsal fin. Also, Helmut Debelius' "Indian Ocean Reef Guide" (1999 IKAN-Unterwasserarchiv D-65933 Frankfurt) page 142 has 2 similar photos and although they are not identified as adult and juvenile they do appear to be such and the smaller looking one has more white while the larger looking one has virtually none.
Hope this helps.
Al
Hope this helps.
Al
Dmorty217
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Peter did you ever get one of these guys? Or anyone else have one or experience with one? I'm thinking about making this one of my last purchases until the 625g is in full swing. I missed out on the one from NYA but rest assured that won't happen again... These are still spectacular butterfly's that don't command the attention the corallivores do
I did get one, and he still has the same amount of white as the day I got him. So, I'm quite happy with him 
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2255874&highlight=mitratus
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2255874&highlight=mitratus
Dmorty217
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Thanks for the link to your other thread, great first pictures! I did a search on RC and your other thread didn't come up... Next time I have a butterfly question I will just search your threads since your quite the butterfly addict! If you could take some more pics of your FOWLR and post them, love seeing pictures of all your butterfly's!
Dmorty217
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Thanks! He's a great little fish, and managed to survive a string of losses, which included all my other roaops at the time
Sounds like they are as hardy as they are claimed to be then. That's good to hear, makes spending the $$$ on the little guy that much easier!
I never know where to post butterfly threads.... reef fishes or aggressive fish forum :lol:
Dmorty217
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Reef fishes, you can't have a fish that beautiful not in a reef setting! I'm much more of a fish guy than a coral guy so if some corals get eaten so be it. Fish have personalities and can interact with you, corals can not so I will always pick fish over corals
I had one a couple years ago, I ended up losing it and I'm not completely sure why. It ate until the day it died, but never put on a eight. At the time, I was not preventatively treating for internal parasites. Losing that guy is what changed my quarantine regiment to include multiple rounds of Prazi.
I will own one again.
I will own one again.
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
Thanks you for the insight Matt, we are in the same boat of treating multiple times with PP and I for one will always do TTM or treat with CP for ich and velvet. Once you deal with disease or know you have ich in a DT it doesn't make a lot of sense to buy fish that cost hundreds of $$$ just to watch them try and fight it off... I don't see the Mitratus for sale very often at all (I'm guessing because it's a deep water butterfly) or if they are for sale they are between 4-500$
