Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Red Sea to the Cook Islands, north Southern Japan, south to the northern Great Barrier Reef, and also Guam in Micronesia.
Size: 1 inch - (2.5 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabits areas above branches of certain types of Acropora corals in shallow protected lagoons and usually found at depths between 20 –85 feet (6 – 25 m) where it feeds upon zooplankton.
General Husbandry: Not normally collected for the trade.
Taxonomy:
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Gobioidei
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Bryaninops
FYI: Shown here for identification only. Best left in the wild.