Range: Western Pacific Ocean: Philippines to Melanesia and eastern Australia

Size: Up to 1 inches (2.5 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit branching corals

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 83°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. They should not be housed with aggressive fishes such as groupers, dottybacks, triggerfishes or aggressive angelfishes. Rarely seen and the trade.

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