From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Picturesque dragonet
Picturesque dragonet
Picturesque dragonet to help protect them from some other more agressive
fish.
In the aquarium:
Reef Compatible?
Yes
Feeding?
Natural feeding habits entail constantly browsing the
substrate for copepods and other small invertebrates.
Systems with an additional refugium are ideal, as these
can help to generate suitable levels of food organisms as
it prefers to peck on live rock. Because of this it can be a
hard fish to keep. It can, however, be weaned on to frozen
food such as Mysis, Artemia and other prepared foods but
these alone are unlikely to sustain them, particularly if it
is having to compete with other tankmates.
How compatible is it with other fish?
This fish is peaceful and does better with peaceful
Scientific classification tankmates.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Callionymoidei
Family: Callionymidae
Genus: Synchiropus
Species: S. picturatus
Binomial name
Synchiropus picturatus
(Peters, 1877)
A juvenile specimen of Synchiropus picturatus in captivity.
Synonyms
• Callionymus picturatus Peters, 1877
References
• Pterosynchiropus picturatus (Peters, 1877) Media related to Synchiropus picturatus at Wikimedia
Commons
dragonet,
Picturesque dragonet Synchiropus picturatus, is a • Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2008).
Dragonet from the Indo-West Pacific: Philippines, east- "Synchiropus picturatus" in FishBase. December 2008
ern Indonesia and northwest Australia. It occasionally version.
makes its way into the aquarium trade, where it is com- • Practical Fishkeeping Psychedelic mandarinfish
Mandarin,
monly known as the Spotted Mandarin Psychedelic man-
Mandarin.
darin or Target Mandarin It grows to a size of 7 cm in
length. They have thick slime on their skin that inhibits
many types of parasitic infection and minimises the risk
of disease following stress or physical trauma. This seems
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