Harliquin Tusk question...

[corwise]

A few days back I finally got my Harliquin Tusk, beautiful fish. He's doing really good, out a lot, although he does hide when I approach the tank to feed, so I have to overfeed slightly so there's some food still out when he comes out of the rock two minutes later to eat.
Anyway, last night I was sitting in the living room around 11pm with all the fish tank lights off. The only light was the kitchen which only cast a very faint light over the tank. It was enough to see that everything else was asleep as normal, but the Tusk was swimming around the tank. Nothing frantic, just constant laps back and forth. I was curious if this is a normal behavior, or if he's unable to find a cave 'home' in my rockwork dispite all the caves I have. Do I have to redo my rock? Thanks.

Dave

 

[stdreb27]

Most predators are nocturnal. I'm pretty sure HT's are too.

 

[KuanTi]

sometimes if you have more aggressive fish, the tusk could want to hide. theyr'e not that aggressive when compared to triggers and some other fish.

 

[rachenbrazil]

My tusk does take 20 min to find his cave and finally sleep after light's out. Just watch out that he may jump out the tank during this wandering time... mine jumped out once and after that glass cover was put in my FOWLR tank (which never required until I placed the tusk in this tank)

 

[stdreb27]

good point it is easy to forget tusks are wrasses and wrasses are jumpers.