melanurus wrasse hiding or worse...

[catman78]

So I added a 3.5" melanurus to my 120 two days ago.
My six line 3" gave em a bit of the business. No more then the usual new fish greeting.

Haven't seen the melanurus in two days. He could not have jumped and I don't see the nasarius snail grim reapers emerging. I have a 4-5 dsb.

How many days before it's an ex fish...

[catman78]

After submitting thread I turned around a saw it swimming.

Must be my Christmas present..

[Kahuna Tuna]

I was going to say those sand bed loving wrasses can dissappear for days, my red coris was routinely absent for a few days every time he would get spooked. Congrats on the new fish

[catman78]

Thanks, we'll see if he eats when the lights come on.

I got it as a preventive measure, Halichoeres are good @ controlling pests. Hopefully, it doesn't wipe out hermits

[Kahuna Tuna]

I was researching this species and the hermit/snail predation thing was one of my concerns. Sure is a beautiful fish tho....

[catman78]

Hopefully I can feed it well it won't start decimating population.

I'll report back..

No shrimp in my tank anymore. My Hawk did away with him after getting tired of looking @ him for 6 months.
Hawk swam around for almost two days with 1/4 of cleaner shrimp sticking out of his mouth. Kids thought it was cool.

[60G]

i had a yellow coris wrasse disappeared for 1 month i though it was dead and he came out one day i was amazed.:bounce3: