Long Nosed Butterfly-fish

Long Nosed Butterfly-fish

This species has a unique ability of protruding its jaws. This allows it to move its jaws, undetected, close enough to its prey and suck it whole.Hence they are able to feed on elusive preys that live within coral reefs.The Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish, or Forceps Fish, can be found singly or in schools on reef flats and slopes of the Indo-Pacific region. It has a long snout that resembles a pair of needle nose pliers, for picking food out of crevices and between coral heads. The Longnose Butterflyfish has a yellow body. The color of its head is divided horizontally. The upper half of the head, at the very top of the mouth through the top of the head is black. The lower half is white. The dorsal spines are long and jagged. It is a fairly large Butterflyfish in the wild, but remains a medium-sized fish in the home aquarium.