Stripey

Overview

The Stripey is a small, attractively striped fish with a bright yellow body marked by bold black horizontal lines, commonly found in Australian coastal waters as well as more widely across the Indo-Pacific. It's a hardy, peaceful species that naturally schools in the wild, and small groups can add active, natural-looking movement to a reef tank.

Its calm temperament and full reef safety make it a good fit for a peaceful community tank, and it tends to be a confident, easy feeder once settled.

Given its schooling nature, it often shows its best behaviour when kept in a small group rather than as a single individual, though it also does fine on its own.

Compatibility

Stripeys are peaceful and fully reef safe, ignoring corals and invertebrates entirely. They can be kept in small groups, showing natural schooling behaviour and generally causing little aggression toward their own kind or other tankmates.

They mix well with a wide range of peaceful to semi-aggressive community fish and rarely cause problems in a mixed reef tank.

Health & quarantine

This is a hardy, adaptable species with few chronic health issues, generally acclimating and feeding well without major complications. A standard quarantine period of two to four weeks is recommended good practice, and this species typically ships and settles in with minimal stress.