All About Golden Trevally Pilotfish or Golden Jacks
- May 27, 2024
- Anshika Mishra
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In this article, we are talking about the golden trevally pilotfish, also known as the golden jacks. These fish can live to be an outstanding 20 years old and a whopping 4 feet long by adulthood.
These fishes are very popular choices in fish stores as juveniles because they have outstanding colors. They are going to be super bright yellow with dominant black stripes running horizontally, don't their body. It's gonna catch anyone's eye that walks by. Also, these are schooling fish, which gives it a great look.
Similar to the Panther Grouper, they look small and cute as juveniles, but they grow very quickly out of the small tanks. Within the first year, they can grow up to 10-12 inches, and by the second year, they will be around 15 inches in and eventually get to 24 inches in the tank setting.
Golden Trevally Pilotfish
Prices: $60
Tank Size: It has to be bigger than 300 gallons. They get huge and are very active swimmers, so you want to give them plenty of room to grow up in.
A typical tank setting will have a sand bed with tall rock structures and a large opening. Since they are mostly open-water swimmers, give them that space to do so.
Temperament: Peaceful. You won't see a lot of aggression from them toward your other fish. However, they are active eaters. They'll push anyone out of the way to get to the food first.
Reef Compatibility: With caution. Corals are not in their diet. However, there will be issues with inverts, such as cleaner shrimp, crabs, and even snails at times. They'll be seen as meals.
Water Parameters
Temperature: 72-78 degrees
dKH: 8-12
pH: 8.1-8.4
Salinity: 1.020-1.025
Keep water changes in check, ensuring there are no spikes
Diet
They are a carnivore fish. You want to feed them lots of meaty food. Things like shrimps and mysis. As they get bigger, you can upgrade to some raw frozen shrimps, even silversides.
Compatibility
It's recommended to keep them with other larger flower fish and larger reef fish like Tangs, Triggers, Angels, Foxfaces, etc., fish that can stand for themselves in front of these big fish.
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