Synchiropus splendidus
The flower-spotted fin (scientific name: synchiropus splendidus), commonly known as the colorful unicorn, the green unicorn, the multicolored baby, the crown baby, the frog fish. It is a small and brightly colored ratfish, commonly known as frogfish because of its large and prominent eyes and the shape of its head resembling a frog, which can be divided into 3 species according to the color of the body, namely red frogfish, green frogfish, and flower frogfish.
The butterflies live among the reefs and prefer to hide near lagoons and nearshore reefs. Very popular in the Oceanarium.
The spotted fin is a benthic marine fish that lives in offshore coral reef areas. Distributed in the western Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to the Chinese Sea, the Ryukyu Islands to Australia, it is not good at swimming, mostly hidden in the reef, foraging for small crustaceans and other prey.
Aquaculture Overview:
Minimum tank volume
113.6 L (30 gallons)
Conservation level
2 or 3 (Note: 1 easy, 2 medium, 3 difficult, 4 professional)
Raw
placid
Reef collocation
recommend
Water environment
Celsius: 22 °C ~ 29 °C, water quality carbon hardness: 8-12
PH: 8.1-8.4, water specific gravity: 1.023-1.026
Color composition
Blue, green, orange
Maximum size
10.16 cm (adult)
Diet structure
Carnivorous
Best source
Indonesia
Its body is elongated and its head is slightly flattened. The occipital area is smooth. Inferior lateral position of the gill hole. Strong spines of the anterior gill cap The ends are curved upwards, the ventral margin and base of the strong spines are smooth and spineless, and the dorsal margin has two to five curved spinous processes. The lateral line extends from the eye to the base of the caudal fin, without transverse lateral lines, connecting the lateral lines on both sides of the body. The first dorsal fin is extremely low, with the male 's first spine lengthening into filaments ; the second dorsal fin is slightly convex ; the dorsal fin and fin are usually branched ; and the caudal fin is rounded.
The fresh specimen body is reddish brown with many blue-green wavy long strips, a dark olive green on the back of the head and a pale green ventral surface, and a large dark blue class in the anterior gill cap area with many irregular yellow dots and yellow lines. Each fin has a dark blue rim, usually a wavy orange line; the dorsal fin is reddish brown; the pectoral fin is light blue; the ventral fin has a blue dot; the fin membrane has a dark vertical line, the fin is olive green; and the caudal fin is reddish brown. Rare individuals have a bright red background.
The spotted fins are slow, shy, passive-behaving fish that usually congregate in groups or in pairs on coral reefs. They have large fan-shaped ventral fins that often flap against the bottom of the water. Captive spotted fins are completely intolerant of the same species of fish, and due to inter-species aggression, two males cannot be in the same aquarium. During the day, they swim along coral branches or hide in crevices of rocky reefs. Although the swimming speed is slow and the number is large, it is difficult to find because of its foraging habits on the seabed and its small size (on average only 6 cm long). It feeds mainly on small crustaceans and invertebrates.
Spotted fins are regarded as one of the most difficult marine fish to raise, because it is difficult for people to eat standard marine aquatic foods, wild spotted fins have the preference for hunting small, living endpods and copepods, while refusing to eat other foods, and artificially fed aquariums, such foods are extremely scarce, so they are difficult to feed in the aquarium and often suffer from hunger, but if they can adapt to the feeding environment, they will have high disease resistance.
Overall, it is an amazing fish, only suitable for advanced enthusiasts who can provide regular and appropriate feeding, in the aquarium without enough live stones, sand and endpods and copepods to feed, they will slowly starve to death, the key to survival is how to get them used to eating ordinary aquarium foods, such as thawed bran shrimp, harvest shrimp and better granular foods. Feed regularly and keep the water quality inside the tank in top condition by changing the water. Aquariums with reefs are generally considered safer, but caution should be exercised, and some aquarium enthusiasts report that polyps attach to their bodies. Periodically shake or stir some crushed food into the tank during feeding.
Plankton spawning, male and female fish swim upwards and begin in vitro fertilization when in close contact. Spawning areas are generally around coral reefs where small groups of male and female fish are concentrated, spawning about once a week, ovulating more than 200 eggs at a time, and as a year-round breeding fish, the spawning process can last for several months, and its population doubling time is less than 15 months.
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