Husbandry
Randall, 1981
The Southern Tubelip inhabits shallow reef areas with high coral cover, adults feed on coral polyps while juveniles take ectoparasites and possibly mucus of other reef fishes!
So the beauty have to stay where it is, in the wild, no wrasse for reef-tanks.
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labridae (Family) > Labropsis (Genus) > Labropsis australis (Species)
The Southern Tubelip inhabits shallow reef areas with high coral cover, adults feed on coral polyps while juveniles take ectoparasites and possibly mucus of other reef fishes!
So the beauty have to stay where it is, in the wild, no wrasse for reef-tanks.
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labridae (Family) > Labropsis (Genus) > Labropsis australis (Species)