Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: southern Florida, Texas, Bahamas, and widely distributed in the Caribbean, and south to northern South America

Size: Up to 3.5 inches (9 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit rocky bottom areas from 20 to 60 feet (6 - 20 m)

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 70 - 79°F (21 - 26°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, and/or carnivore frozen foods, with at least one feeding per day. It will, however, attempt to eat small ornamental shrimp/snails, so may not be desirable in some reef aquariums.

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