Banggai Cardinalfish

Found in schools, often seen during the day, sheltering in the spines of the Long-spined Sea Urchin - Diadema Setosum, also sea anemones, and branching corals, over mud and sandy bottoms and seagrass beds, of shallow coastal waters.
They feed nocturnally on bottom dwelling crustaceans and zooplankton.
Western Pacific - Banggai Islands and central-east Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Threatened with extinction due to collection for the aquarium trade!

Males incubate their eggs inside their mouths, as the egg masses increase in size they can be found with wide open mouths where they shift the eggs around to aerate the egg masses.

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