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researched from
"Tropical Marine Aquaria"
by Graham.F.Cox.
Published by Treasure Press
© The Hamlyn Publishing Group

This fish’s systematic name translates into English most unfortunately as the ‘Hundred-eyed Muck-eater’. This name was acquired because the first specimens examined by western ichthyologists were found to have stomachs full of excrement. Such unsavoury feeding habits, however, are certainly not characteristic of this species if it is provided with more attractive fare. In the sea aquarium, Scats do not prove so hardy as the previous or next species, but they have nevertheless been kept for more than four years by relative beginners in the field.