help with info onpicture wrasse!

[Dr.Gonzo]

I saw one at the pet store but I can't really find any info about them. can anyone help out here? I need to know if he will be community safe. Thanks!

 

[mountaindew]

I have a fairy wrasse and I have him in with a dogface puffer,porcupine puffer,panther grouper,yellow tang and a snowflake eel.This is a 110 gal. with live rock and live sand and no problems

 

[Lorna]

that fairy wrasse is soon to be lunch for one of those other fish.......

 

[mountaindew]

Its been a year and no problems

 

[Lorna]

Just wait until those guys grow some.....

 

[Lotus]

It should be fine in a community, although that genus does occasionally pick on small shrimp or fan worms, etc. It won't pick corals, and needs a sand substrate in which to sleep.

It's also called the nebulous wrasse.

 

[Dr.Gonzo]

YAY! Thanks Lotus! where did you find info on them? I tried everywhere and came up with nothing.

 

[Lotus]

Looked up the genus in my Reef Fishes book, and looked up the Latin name on Google for the alternative common name.

 

[di0nysus]

thats funny they use the sand bed as an actuall bed to sleep in. ive been meaning to ask that question myself... do fish actually sleep?

 

[Lorna]

yes some wedge themselves into a rock crevice to sleep. My clowns wrap themselves in the anemone tentacles and I have seen most of my fish buried deep in the live rock napping.....

 

[Lotus]

A lot of wrasses secrete a slime cocoon to sleep in every night.

 

[TRe]

this wrasse has similar markings to my old christmas wrasse ... it may sound cool that he burries himself at night that is until he stirs up sand on every coral on the lower half of the tank and u end up having to use a turkey baster daily to squirt the sand off everything thanks but no thanks ... i ended up trading mine for some corals oh yea and u can kiss your snails good by

heres a pic of my old christmas wrasse