Longhorn cowfish
Lactoria cornuta
It whirs along inside a hard shell, jetting sand to uncover its food.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 40 cm
- Smallest tank
- 300 cm
- Temperature
- 23–27 °C
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Calm
- Water layer
- Bottom
- Care
- Demanding
- Group
- Lives on its own
- Coral
- Nips corals
These numbers are LumaReef simulation data, not a real aquarium care guide.
Which tank it fits
- Nano60 cm · 65 litresToo small
- Standard90 cm · 180 litresToo small
- Wide120 cm · 300 litresToo small
- Living room180 cm · 650 litresToo small
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litresToo small
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Blue tang
- Yellow tang
- Flame angelfish
- Lyretail anthias
- Clownfish
- Yellow watchman goby
- Fire goby
- Green chromis
- Sixline wrasse
- Royal gramma
- Yellow boxfish
- Volitans lionfish
- Niger triggerfish
- Naso tang
- French angelfish
- Porcupine puffer
- Sailfin tang
- Engineer goby
- Foxface rabbitfish
- Threadfin butterflyfish
- Squarespot anthias
- Scopas tang
- Convict tang
- Regal angelfish
- and 65 more species
Not together
- Queen angelfishAggressive with peaceful
- Emperor angelfishAggressive with peaceful
- Picasso triggerfishAggressive with peaceful
- Purple tangAggressive with peaceful
- Powder blue tangAggressive with peaceful
- Lunare wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Maroon clownfishAggressive with peaceful
- Domino damselfishAggressive with peaceful
- Blue damselfishAggressive with peaceful
Same familyPredators and oddities
- Dwarf lionfishDendrochirus zebra
- Volitans lionfishPterois volitans
- Picasso triggerfishRhinecanthus aculeatus
- Niger triggerfishOdonus niger
- Valentini pufferCanthigaster valentini
- Porcupine pufferDiodon holocanthus
- Yellow boxfishOstracion cubicus
- Aiptasia-eating filefishAcreichthys tomentosus
- Lined seahorseHippocampus erectus