Range: Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands

Size: Up to 8 in (20 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit shallow sandy and rubble areas

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 79°F (22 - 26°C) and a natural diet of benthic invertebrate, usually hard-shelled invertebrates. Requires a meaty diet, including chopped fish and shrimp flesh, fortified brine shrimp, mysis, black worms and other meaty type frozen foods, with two or three feedings per day. Has a habit of turning over rubble. Will also eat snails, urchins, sea stars, brittle stars, shrimp, clams, and worms of all kinds. A burrowing species, therefore, provide a fine-grained substrate of at least 3 inches (7.5 cm) in depth. Rarely seen in the trade.

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