Range: Western Central Atlantic Ocean: Southern Florida, Bahamas to Barbados and northern South America

Size: Up to 4 inches (10 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit crushed coral and sandy areas at depths between 10 to 120 feet (3 - 40 m)

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C) and natural diet consists mainly of benthic invertebrate and zooplankton. 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. Needs caves or a deep substrate of course grained sand/pebbles that it can fashion into a burrow. A good jumper! Has been reared in captivity. Do not mix more than one jawfish species in the same aquarium

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