🐠 Splendid Dottyback (Manonichthys splendens)
A Spectacular Pinkish-Yellow Body With Blue Flecks and Neon Trim • One of the Larger, Bolder Dottybacks • A Colourful Showpiece
 
📋 The Splendid Dottyback, also known as the Splendid Pseudochromis, has a spectacular pinkish-yellow body speckled with blue flecks, spotted fins rimmed in neon blue, and a yellow tail and crown, with some specimens showing a grey-to-black eye stripe.
It comes from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia across the Western Indo-Pacific, where it lives on shallow reefs, reef slopes, and outer reef areas, with a particular fondness for tube sponges. Every Splendid Dottyback we ship is feeding well.
It's one of the larger dottybacks, reaching up to 13cm, and it's a hardy, colourful centrepiece that defends its claimed territory with real confidence, even against fish two to three times its size, so it's best as the only dottyback or similarly shaped fish in smaller tanks. A good-quality diet supports its brightest, most vivid colours. It's fully reef safe with corals, though it will eat small ornamental shrimp, so choose companion invertebrates with care. Plan on at least 115L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Pinkish-Yellow With Blue Flecks and Neon Trim: A spectacular, colourful dottyback
📏 One of the Larger Dottybacks: Grows up to 13cm
💪 Confident and Bold: Defends its territory against much larger fish
🍽️ Ships Feeding Well: A great diet keeps its colours at their brightest
🌿 Fully Reef Safe With Corals: Will eat small ornamental shrimp