This species of fish is found in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean.

It ranges from Indonesia to the Philippines to the Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea.

When the diurnal hours are over, they take shelter in corals to avoid getting eaten by predators.

[2] People keep them normally in the average conditions that tropical marine fish are kept in.

It loves to cruise by nature therefore need a vast living space and territory.

[3] Males establish a territory on a rock or coral surface and start clean it.

Eggs that failed to hatch are removed out of the spawning site.