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Related FAQs: The
Fishes of the Cook Islands,
Coverage of families in the Cooks: Surgeons, Doctorfishes, Tangs, Triggerfishes,
Hawkfishes, Wrasses
Related Articles: Introduction to Fishwatcher's Guide
Series Pieces/Sections,
/Fishwatching: Adventure Travel Series
Pet-Fishing in the Cook
Islands
Long Version, Pt.
V
To: Pet-Fishing in the Cooks, Short Version,
Longer Version: Part I, Part II, Part III,
Part IV, Part VI
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>Some So-So Cooks Butterflies
Shown: Chaetodon ephippium, C. unimaculata, C. citrinellus,
C. quadrimaculatus
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>Poor Aquarium Butterflyfishes
Shown: Chaetodon bennetti, C. flavirostris, C. pelewensis,
C. lineolatus.
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>More Poor Choice B/Fs
Shown: Chaetodon ornatissimus, C. reticulatus, C.
trifascialis, C. vagabundus.
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>Hawkfishes of the Cooks
>vN=
7, not reef-safe… will eat crustaceans.
Shown: Cirrhitus pinnulatus, Neocirrhites armatus,
Paracirrhites arcatus, P. forsteri.
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>More Hawkfishes of the Cooks
Shown: Paracirrhites forsteri, P. hemistictus
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>Cooks Squirrel,
Soldierfishes
>vN=
21, with most being too large and/or ugly for aquarium
use.
Shown: Neoniphon sammara, Myripristis berndti, Sargocentron
diadema, Myripristis violacea
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| >Wrasseland: the Cooks >vN=
50 species!
vSome of the best, worst of the family (for aquarium use)
found here.
vIncluding two bad Anampses species. Shown: Anampses caeruleopunctatus, A.
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>Cooks Bodianus
Wrasses/Hogs
Shown: Bodianus anthioides, B. axillaris, juvenile and
sub-adult B. bilunulatus, not shown, and rare in the
Cooks, B. loxozonus
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