flashing wrasse

dirtyclownfish

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i have a wrasse that will flash on the live sand every once and a while. he shows no outward signs of infestation and eats and behaves normally. why does he do this? what could be making him itchy? the water quality is near perfect.
 
He could have anything from internal to external parasites, bacterial infections, and a variety of other things. I would recommend getting it in QT until you figure out what is causing it.
 
If you don't see anything and other fish in tank are clean, do nothing. I had a banana wrasse that would scratch every day for over 6 months. (traded it in due to aggression) At a LFS they had 4 big ones in and all of them scratched. They may just do it....

After reading some of the threads in this section I am surprised that so many threads go unanswered. I am never in this section because my fish aren't sick and I can't use the search function which makes this section useless.

I will share this though, often times over reaction to what you think is a problem ends up being more deadly than leaving the fish alone. Good water and good food come first.

I have noticed that ich comes and goes for many fish and eventually goes away on its own. A new purple tang was covered in ich for 2 weeks and then finally went away. Same happens with wrasses, angels and triggers that I've had. I do nothing and it will go away with the help of 2 cleaner shrimps on duty.

Marine velvet though is another story though....acraflavine is the only thing I've used that worked.
 

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