My new Heniochus diphreutes Butterfly

[Jdubbs]

I heard these guys are one of the few reef safe(r) butterflyfish - and very hard to tell apart from the acuminatus - who are not reef safe..

Just seeing if anyone can confirm or deny - got a lot of sps - but thought it was worth it. very friendly, fiending like a madman on mysis and I sold a large tang who was harassing him to accommodate. Hoping for the best - he's the boss

 

[Treef]

cute fish, how big do they get?

 

[Dre]

Where did you get your information from? I could be wrong but i think you have the H. Acuminatus. I had a few that act as cleaner fishes but picked on soft polyps as well.

 

[Jdubbs]

I got my info from absolutely fish - both Pat and Todd said he was def diphreutes. It's hard to see in the pic, but he does have the black line on the bottom of his middle white stripe - to which I was told is how to distinguish them

 

[Jdubbs]

http://www.reefs.org/forums/topic118395.html

This site helps as well to distinguish - I'm pretty sure I got the diphreutes

 

[Dre]

So you are saying this is what you have??Wipe the sleep out your eye J, Lol.

 

[Dre]

This is H. Acuminatus.

 

[Jdubbs]

this one might be more accurate is comparing the eye diameters to the length of snouts http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/102534

 

[Dre]

this one might be more accurate is comparing the eye diameters to the length of snouts http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/102534

Face it man, the guys at absolutly fish are wrong.The web sites you presented are all correct as well as my eye sight. I've kept these guys before, as a matter of fact i have never seen a H. Diphreutes IN A lfs.

 

[Jdubbs]

haha thanks dre.. they prob are wrongeitherway im hoping for the best. he hasnt nipped at a thing yet and its been 4 days. (knock on wood)

 

[Dre]

Yeah i'm knocking for you too man, i want to add some butterflies myself in the weeks to come. Good luck.

 

[Jdubbs]

PS you may want to change your pic - it's really creepy. haha