🐠 Lantern Bass (Serranus baldwini)
An Elongated Body Mottled With Orange, Black and Brown • A Yellow Stripe From Gills to Tail • Hardy and Beginner-Friendly
 
📋 The Lantern Bass, also known as the Lantern Basslet, has an attractive elongated body covered in small rectangular patches of orange, black, and brown, with a yellow line running horizontally from the gills to the tail.
It comes from the Caribbean, South Florida, the Bahamas, and Brazil, where it spends much of its time perching in and around rockwork and caves. It's one of the smaller members of the Serranus genus, hardy and disease-resistant, which makes it a great choice for beginners. Every Lantern Bass we ship is feeding well.
It can be bold and even semi-aggressive toward smaller, passive, or skittish tankmates, and it will eat small shrimp and crabs. It's reef safe with caution: it leaves corals and sessile invertebrates alone, which suits a reef tank without small fish or shrimp. Multiple fish can be kept together if introduced at the same time, though not alongside other basslets. It reaches about 12cm, so plan on at least 115L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Mottled Orange, Black and Brown: A distinctive, attractive pattern
💪 Hardy and Disease-Resistant: A great choice for beginners
😊 Bold for Its Size: Full of character
🍽️ Ships Feeding Well: An easy eater from the start
🌿 Reef Safe With Caution: Leaves corals alone, but eats small shrimp and crabs