Picasso triggerfish
Rhinecanthus aculeatus
It never uses its tail, rippling its dorsal and anal fins instead.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 25 cm
- Smallest tank
- 180 cm
- Temperature
- 23–27 °C
- Temperament
- Aggressive
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Moderate
- Water layer
- Mid water
- Care
- Moderate
- 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 litres14 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres26 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Yellow tang
- Flame angelfish
- Clownfish
- Sixline wrasse
- Engineer goby
- Sailfin tang
- Purple tang
- Powder blue tang
- Naso tang
- Emperor angelfish
- French angelfish
- Lunare wrasse
- Threadfin butterflyfish
- Porcupine puffer
- Squarespot anthias
- Scopas tang
- Convict tang
- Raccoon butterflyfish
- Dwarf lionfish
- Maroon clownfish
- Queen angelfish
- Volitans lionfish
- Niger triggerfish
- Kole tang
- and 27 more species
Not together
- Blue tangAggressive with peaceful
- Lyretail anthiasAggressive with peaceful
- Yellow watchman gobyAggressive with peaceful
- Fire gobyAggressive with peaceful
- Green chromisAggressive with peaceful
- Royal grammaAggressive with peaceful
- Foxface rabbitfishAggressive with peaceful
- Regal angelfishAggressive with peaceful
- Pyramid butterflyfishAggressive with peaceful
- Copperband butterflyfishAggressive with peaceful
- Longnose butterflyfishAggressive with peaceful
- Lined seahorseAggressive with peaceful
- Diamond watchman gobyAggressive with peaceful
- Melanurus wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Exquisite fairy wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Lawnmower blennyAggressive with peaceful
- Starry blennyAggressive with peaceful
- Pearlscale butterflyfishAggressive with peaceful
- Yellow boxfishAggressive with peaceful
- Aiptasia-eating filefishAggressive with peaceful
- Yellow coris wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Leopard wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Radiant wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Cleaner wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Bicolor blennyAggressive with peaceful
- Yellowhead jawfishAggressive with peaceful
- Longhorn cowfishAggressive with peaceful
- Pink skunk clownfishAggressive with peaceful
- Flame wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Randall's shrimpgobyAggressive with peaceful
- Dispar anthiasAggressive with peaceful
- Swissguard bassletAggressive with peaceful
- Chalk bassAggressive with peaceful
- Pajama cardinalfishAggressive with peaceful
- Carpenter's flasher wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Purple firefishAggressive with peaceful
- Court jester gobyAggressive with peaceful
- Scooter dragonetAggressive with peaceful
- Yellowstriped cardinalfishAggressive with peaceful
- Tailspot blennyAggressive with peaceful
- MandarinfishAggressive with peaceful
- Talbot's damselfishAggressive with peaceful
- Springer's damselfishAggressive with peaceful
- Neon gobyAggressive with peaceful
- Yasha gobyAggressive with peaceful
- High-fin shrimpgobyAggressive with peaceful
- Ruby red dragonetAggressive with peaceful
- Green clown gobyAggressive with peaceful
Same familyPredators and oddities
- Dwarf lionfishDendrochirus zebra
- Volitans lionfishPterois volitans
- Niger triggerfishOdonus niger
- Valentini pufferCanthigaster valentini
- Porcupine pufferDiodon holocanthus
- Yellow boxfishOstracion cubicus
- Longhorn cowfishLactoria cornuta
- Aiptasia-eating filefishAcreichthys tomentosus
- Lined seahorseHippocampus erectus