Range: Western Pacific Ocean: Philippines to Samoa, southern Japan, Great Barrier Reef

Size: Up to 4 in (10 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit edges of reefs and sandy areas

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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