🐠 Redfin Butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunulatus)
A Pink-to-Yellow Body With Fine Purple Pinstripes • Black-and-Red Fin Edging • A Rare Coral Specialist
 
📋 The Redfin Butterflyfish, also called the Oval Butterflyfish or Pacific Pinstriped Butterflyfish, has a striking pink-to-yellow body crossed by fine oblique purple stripes, with the anal, dorsal, and caudal fins edged in black and warm red.
It comes from shallow coral-rich lagoons, reef flats, and fore-reef slopes across the Indo-Pacific, from Indonesia to the Great Barrier Reef, French Polynesia, and Hawaii, restricted almost entirely to areas with healthy, abundant coral growth. In the wild it feeds almost exclusively on live stony coral polyps, making it a true specialist, and every Redfin Butterflyfish we ship is feeding well on a workable diet, sold only to keepers with an ongoing live coral food source already in place.
It's not reef safe for most setups, since it will consume stony coral polyps and other sessile invertebrates, which is exactly what makes it such a dedicated feeder. It's peaceful but territorial toward similar butterflyfish. It reaches up to 15cm, so plan on at least 350L with a sustained live coral supply.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Pink-Yellow Body With Purple Pinstripes: A striking, high-contrast pattern
🪸 A True Coral-Polyp Specialist: Feeds almost exclusively on live coral in the wild
🍽️ Ships Feeding Well: Sold only with a live coral food source already in place
💎 Rare in the Trade: A a specialist find
🌊 A Habitat-Restricted Species: Found only where coral growth is healthy and abundant