Needs a purpose-built habitat with substrate, hides and furnishings prepared before arrival (habitat complexity 70/100).
Heating
Needs an actively controlled temperature gradient maintained by dedicated equipment (environmental control demand 75/100).
Specialist vet
Requires access to a veterinarian who treats this group before you acquire the animal (specialist vet dependency 75/100).
System requirements
Water type
Marine
Minimum system volume
100 L
Temperature
24–27 °C
Minimum group size
2 animals
The matcher treats system volume as a hard constraint: a species that needs more water than you can maintain is removed from your results rather than ranked lower.
What this animal needs from you
Scores are normalised 0–100 for comparison across very different animals. They are product-normalisation values with a stated confidence, revisable through expert review.