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| | Common Name(s) | Raccoon Butterflyfish |
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| Scientific Name(s) | Chaetodon lunula |
| | Family Name | | | Water Type | Saltwater | | Description | The Raccoon Butterflyfish is yellow-orange, but darker on the upper half of the body. It has a black patch around its eyes, with a broad white stripe posterior to it. Two black stripes bordered in yellow reach from the white stripe to the dorsal fin. This fish is a peaceful fish that may reside in a 70 gallon or larger fish-only aquarium with other butterflyfish. It should not be kept in a reef tank since it will eat invertebrates and is deemed unsafe with corals.
Tank conditions: sg 1.020- 1.025 | |  | | Origin | Fiji, Hawaii, Indo Pacific | | | | Diet | Once acclimated, it can be fed a varied diet of meaty foods, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp, and frozen preparations several times daily.
| | Care Level | Easy | | Temperature | 72 - 78 (Deg. F.) | | Preferred Ph | 8.2 | | Kh | 0 |
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