My Christmas wrasse I just got last week spends most of his time buried in the sand bed. He comes out in the morning when the lights come on and stays out till around 12:30. After that he is gone for the rest of the day. I haven't noticed any of the other fish in my tank harassing it and its eating fine. It's such a beautiful fish I hate for it to spend its time in the sand. Any ideas? Maybe an acclimation box to help?
Christmas Wrasse hiding
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Wrasse Nut
Correct, except that it's not a Cores, but rather a Halichoeres. Regardless, just give him a few weeks.
You know what I meant :debi:
hogfanreefer
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Mine is in a bare bottom QT (prolonged QT due to Ich). He spent the first 10 days trying to "dig" in to the bare bottom. He now(6 weeks later) is my most personable fish and afraid of nothing. He comes to the front if I sit in front of the tank, he isn't afraid during any maintenance operations and investigates anything I put in the tank, even follows the Mag Float around to see if I dislodge something to eat.
Give him some time. He'll come around.
Give him some time. He'll come around.
xtlosx
Just Reefin'
I agree on giving them time.. We have two yellow wrasses (eh eh... no coris there, you like that?) and when we first got them, they went to bed several hours before lights out, and come out something like 5 hours after lights on... Daily, they would come out earlier, and earlier, and earlier, and eventually they synchronized to the clock in the tank. Remember, these guys make a long treck across the world and their internal clocks are thrown upside down.
Long story short, they'll be fine, just let them adapt.
Long story short, they'll be fine, just let them adapt.
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