Pacific Mutton Hamlet

Found singly, during the day hiding in crevices or lying in seagrass beds, often partly covered in sand, out at night hunting for food over reefs.
They feed nocturnally on benthic crustaceans.

Groupers are solitary carnivores that hunt near the bottom usually at dusk. Food is drawn into their mouths by a powerful suction when they open their overly large mouths and then swallowed whole.
Spawning is seasonal and controlled by the moons phase.