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Old 01-25-2009, 11:19 PM
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Only thing I would add is, if you hope to have a pair, make sure you have a male and a female. I'm not 100% of the way to tell them apart but there is, apparently, a way. The shape of the eye "pupil" or something? If they do not know each other and if you have two of the same, they won't necessarily get along.

I bought a "pair" from a Canreefer shutting his tank down a couple years ago. When I got to his house, he was .. well, a bit disorganized. He couldn't find one of the pair in the tank, but he was insistent on sending me home with a "pair" and he had one in another tank he was shutting down. My instinct was to just go with the one we had caught but he insisted, .. in the end I should have trusted my instinct. The two fish from different tanks did not get along and eventually one did kill off the other.

So two orchid dottybacks does not a pair, make. My advice is make sure they are a known pairing if you attempt more than one, or play it safe and stick with one.

The remaining survivor that I have, has been a great fish otherwise. No problems with other fish or invertebrates.
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