Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Sri Lanka, Taiwan, northern Australia

Size: Up to 5 in (12 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit shallow coastal reefs and seagrass beds

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 75 - 82°F (25 - 28°C) and has a natural diet of benthic invertebrate. Requires a meaty diet, including finely chopped fish or shrimp flesh, fortified brine shrimp, mysis, black worms and other meaty type frozen foods with two or three feedings per day. These burrowing wrasses are hardy, adapt well to aquarium life, peaceful, takes a wide variety of foodstuffs, resistant to parasitic infections and compatible with other wrasses. May have an appetite for tubeworms. Provide a fine-grained substrate of at least 3 inches (7.5 cm) in depth.

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