Saltwater Fish
Yellow Long-nosed Butterflyfish.
A bright yellow butterflyfish with a long, slender snout for picking food out of the rockwork. One of the hardier, more peaceful butterflies, and reef-safe with caution; give it a mature 75-gallon-plus tank with live rock to forage over.
Live fish are priced per supplier batch — prices may vary. Call to confirm current pricing.
- Condition
- new
- Fulfillment
- Local pickup — Erie, PA
Every animal is acclimated and health-checked in-house before it reaches the sales floor. This is a species we carry — it's most likely in the tanks around delivery days, but live stock changes daily. Please call (814) 456-9445 to confirm availability before you drive in.
Care at a glance
What to know before you take one home.
- Care level
- Intermediate
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Community
- Community safe
- Adult size
- 8"
- Min tank size
- 75 gallons
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Scientific name
- Forcipiger flavissimus
Good tank mates
Generally peaceful and one of the calmer butterflyfish, it suits a fish-focused community with tangs, wrasses, larger clownfish, and other mellow saltwater fish, and it usually ignores most corals. It is only reef-safe with caution: it will pick at ornamental shrimp, feather dusters, tubeworms, and some soft coral and clam mantles, so keep it out of tanks centered on those inverts. Avoid very aggressive or bullying tankmates that may outcompete this slow, deliberate feeder.
Good to know
Its long, tweezer-like snout is built to reach into rock crevices and coral branches for tiny invertebrates other fish can't get to.
Stock and individual temperament vary — call (814) 456-9445 for pairing advice before you buy.
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Erie, PA.
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