The Blackeye Thicklip Wrasse juveniles are bicoloured sporting a white anterior, dark posterior and yellow tail. Adults are a deep shades of green with a paler shade of green on its head with pink and blue markings.
This solitary wrasse species is usually foundscavenging for prey on the seafloor with its large protruding lips, during this process they will shift the substrate quite a bit.
Due to the large size they can attain, they ar best kept in larger aquariums with plenty of open swimming space.
They feed mainly on small crustaceans, mollusks and echinoderms but will not harm coral.