Range: Widespread in the western and central Pacific Ocean

Size: Up to 3 inches (7 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit coastal sand flats, sloped areas, and seagrass areas

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C) and natural diet consists mainly of benthic invertebrate. Requires a meaty diet, i.e., enriched brine shrimp, mysis, finely chopped fish or shrimp flesh, with one or two feedings per day. They should not be housed with aggressive fishes such as groupers, dottybacks, triggerfishes or angelfishes. Small sinking enriched shrimp meal pellets are an excellent way of keeping them well fed. Forms a symbiotic partnerships with nearly blind alpheid shrimps, yet does not need a shrimp partner to survive. This bottom dwelling animal should have a course substrate (2 - 4 mm) and some rubble to move around as desired. Non-aggressive to other species, however, one to a tank or a mated pair.

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