Baby Hepatus everywhere!

[Mark Novack]

I guess it was about 6 or 7 years ago that DeJong in the Netherlands had success with tank breeding a Dory. Now the stores are always stocked with Hepatus between 0.5 to 1.5 inches. I got an inch long specimen and its doing fine in an 80 liter mature aquarium is shares with a Gramma Loretto. It eats only the natural macro algaes for now but it has plenty and a variety. It still hides when I open the top. Studied growth rates suggests that it should not outgrow the tank for at least 18 months although my 710 liter should be ready in a couple of months at which point the little tank is going away. The blue of these little guys is amazing. My closest fish store has about 20 of the little ones in their coral tank doing their jobs keeping the corals clean and shiny.

Mark

 

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I guess it was about 6 or 7 years ago that DeJong in the Netherlands had success with tank breeding a Dory. Now the stores are always stocked with Hepatus between 0.5 to 1.5 inches. I got an inch long specimen and its doing fine in an 80 liter mature aquarium is shares with a Gramma Loretto. It eats only the natural macro algaes for now but it has plenty and a variety. It still hides when I open the top. Studied growth rates suggests that it should not outgrow the tank for at least 18 months although my 710 liter should be ready in a couple of months at which point the little tank is going away. The blue of these little guys is amazing. My closest fish store has about 20 of the little ones in their coral tank doing their jobs keeping the corals clean and shiny.

Mark

Yeah! They’re all over the place now, my LFS has an abberant regal, about 1 inch long. No black mask on it at all! Just a completely blue specimen, wish I had a tank for it to grow it in.

Growth rate is dependant on how much it’s fed and the surroundings.