Range: Indo-Pacific Ocean: East Africa to Tuamotu Islands, north to Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan, south to Lord Howe Island and Tubuai Islands and throughout Micronesia

Size: Up to 1.5 inches (3 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabits shallow lagoons and channel reefs

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C). Natural diet consists mainly of zooplankton. 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. Rarely seen in the trade and makes a nice addition to nano reef tanks.

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