🐠 Ruby Red Dragonet (Synchiropus sycorax)
Marine Reef-Safe Live-Food Specialist • Deep Crimson Body With Yellow Pectoral Fins • Genuinely Recently Discovered Species • Advanced Marine Fish
 
⚠️ Important Information — Please Read First
We want to be genuinely upfront on this one. Like other dragonets, this species feeds almost entirely on tiny live copepods and amphipods in the wild, and genuinely requires an aquarium established for at least 6 months with a healthy, thriving pod population before it's introduced. It's a slow, deliberate feeder that can struggle to compete with faster fish at feeding time, and without an adequate ongoing live food supply, it can gradually waste away even while appearing outwardly healthy. Please speak with our team about your tank's maturity and pod population before purchasing.
 
📋 The Ruby Red Dragonet has a genuinely striking, unmistakable appearance — a deep ruby-red-to-crimson body scattered with small white spots, and unique bright yellow pectoral fins crossed by an incomplete black stripe. Males develop a genuinely dramatic, enlarged fan-shaped dorsal fin used in courtship and rival displays.
Native to coral rubble areas and reef flats across the Philippines and wider Western Pacific, at depths from 5 to 40 metres, this species is genuinely quite new to science — it was only formally described in 2015, and was successfully captive-bred for the first time in 2016.
 
🔴🟡 Highlights
🎨 Deep Ruby-Red With Yellow Pectoral Fins: A genuinely unique, unmistakable dragonet
🔬 Genuinely Recently Discovered: Only formally described in 2015
⚠️ Genuine Live-Food Specialist: Requires an established tank with a thriving pod population
🌿 Fully Reef Safe: Won't harm corals or invertebrates
🐠 Genuinely Successfully Captive-Bred: ORA achieved the first captive breeding in 2016