Range: Indo-Pacific Ocean: East Africa to the Tuamotu Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Lord Howe island and throughout Micronesia

Size: Up to 3 inches (7 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit tidal reef flats and shallow lagoons where sand and rubble collect

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C) and their natural diet consists mainly of benthic invertebrate. Requires a meaty diet, i.e., enriched brine shrimp, mysis, finely chopped fish or shrimp flesh, and other various frozen carnivore foods, with one or two feedings per day. They should be housed in aquariums with a sandbed of at least two inches in depth and not housed with aggressive fishes such as groupers, dottybacks, triggerfishes or angelfishes. Not often seen in the trade.

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