Wire Netting Leather Jacket Filefish

Cantherhines Filefish should be added to well established aquariums with plenty of room to swim. Plenty of rock work with caves, cracks and crevices should be provided for grazing and hiding. Filefish are slow swimmers, an aquarium with low water flow is required. Feed a well balanced diet of marine meaty and algae based foods. Cantherhines Filefish will pick at coral, algae, sponge, mollusks and sea urchins. Filefish are generally shy and secretive and should only be housed with other peaceful fish.

Wire Netting Leather Jacket are also sometimes known as Squaretail Filefish. Not often seen in the aquarium trade. Generally gray to almost black with blue stripes on its head, white spots on a transparent yellow dorsal and anal fins. Wire Netting Leather Jacket can grow to almost 8".

We recommend a minimum aquarium size of 75 gallons or larger for this species.

Water conditions: Salinity 1.020 - 1.025, Temp (F) 72 - 78, pH 8.1 - 8.4, Alkalinity 8 - 12 dKH