Yellow Stripe Whiptail Bream

Provide an aquarium with plenty of rockwork, cracks, crevices and caves for hiding. Breams also require wide open swim areas and a deep sand bed. They will sift through the sand looking for prey. Breams are not reef safe and will eat any fish or invertebrate they can fit in their mouth. Provide a diet of meaty based foods three times a day. Breams may not eat prepared foods when first acclimated, try feeding enriched live adult Brine, Glass/Grass Shrimp or Black Worms. Juveniles are colorful but as the fish matures their coloration will fade. Keep only one per aquarium and provide a tight fitting lid as they may jump.

Yellow Stripe Whiptail are also sometimes known as Purple Threadfin Bream. Not often seen in the aquarium trade. The Yellow Stripe Whiptail is a purple to blue color with a bright yellow stripe from its eyes to its tail There are long filaments at the tip of each caudal lobe. Yellow Stripe Whiptails can grow up to 10 inches in length.

We recommend a minimum aquarium size of 100 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