saltn00b
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a few months back i lost my oldest fish of 2 years, a yellow coris, or canary wrasse. he was finally forced to jump out of the tank at a weird angle by a pursing bully pink square anthias.
fast foreward to a few days ago, and i finally replaced him with a beautiful Exquisite Wrasse. an expensive wrasse, in the fairy category. Fairy wrasse act very different from the Coris family. I have always known that some wrasse will wrap themselves in a silky cocoon when stressed, and possibly when sleeping, but i was a little taken aback this morning when i saw it.
she was relatively calm during the acclimation process, and i saw no evidence of silky cocoons at that time. i am not sure if these wrasse sleep in the sandbed like the coris, but i thought they do, and was expecting her to jet right for it upon entering the tank. the first night i actually saw her swimming carefully under a small ledge, so no sand digging for her at least until a little bit later. My old canary would have been no where to be seen until the next day!
yesterday was the 24 hour mark, and she was swimming around the same ledge, very close to the sand, and a bit scared of all the other fish, but she was out in the open still. the CB angel gave her a quick chase , but nothing to be worried about. all looked well, except for one moment she even stopped and rested on the sand for about a second. weird behavior, but after she was swimming about with no problem (in her safety area).
this morning was the 32 hour mark, and when the lights came on, i soon after noticed her wedged between two rocks with the silky strand loosely wrapped around her, and flowing gently in the current. she was awake, and breathing, maybe a little hard, maybe not, and her eyes were darting around. i had to leave to work but she stayed in that position. So i am thinking that this wrasse does not sleep in the sand bed, and instead finds a crevice and sleeps in her own spun cocoon of silk. is that correct? does she seem to be super stressed, or just slightly stressed from acclimating into a new environment?
BTW - i have since built egg crate covers for the tank openings, so she shouldnt be able to jump (even tho she made no attempt in the acclimation bucket when i caught her). and the anthias, the bully of the tank, has thus far showed no interest in the wrasse whatsoever that i have seen, so she is relatively unharassed.
any and all comments and advice are welcome! pics soon to come.
fast foreward to a few days ago, and i finally replaced him with a beautiful Exquisite Wrasse. an expensive wrasse, in the fairy category. Fairy wrasse act very different from the Coris family. I have always known that some wrasse will wrap themselves in a silky cocoon when stressed, and possibly when sleeping, but i was a little taken aback this morning when i saw it.
she was relatively calm during the acclimation process, and i saw no evidence of silky cocoons at that time. i am not sure if these wrasse sleep in the sandbed like the coris, but i thought they do, and was expecting her to jet right for it upon entering the tank. the first night i actually saw her swimming carefully under a small ledge, so no sand digging for her at least until a little bit later. My old canary would have been no where to be seen until the next day!
yesterday was the 24 hour mark, and she was swimming around the same ledge, very close to the sand, and a bit scared of all the other fish, but she was out in the open still. the CB angel gave her a quick chase , but nothing to be worried about. all looked well, except for one moment she even stopped and rested on the sand for about a second. weird behavior, but after she was swimming about with no problem (in her safety area).
this morning was the 32 hour mark, and when the lights came on, i soon after noticed her wedged between two rocks with the silky strand loosely wrapped around her, and flowing gently in the current. she was awake, and breathing, maybe a little hard, maybe not, and her eyes were darting around. i had to leave to work but she stayed in that position. So i am thinking that this wrasse does not sleep in the sand bed, and instead finds a crevice and sleeps in her own spun cocoon of silk. is that correct? does she seem to be super stressed, or just slightly stressed from acclimating into a new environment?
BTW - i have since built egg crate covers for the tank openings, so she shouldnt be able to jump (even tho she made no attempt in the acclimation bucket when i caught her). and the anthias, the bully of the tank, has thus far showed no interest in the wrasse whatsoever that i have seen, so she is relatively unharassed.
any and all comments and advice are welcome! pics soon to come.
