So I got a wrasse

[CrayolaViolence]

I bought a yellow wrasse because I saw a few nuisance nudibranch on my zoes. He was doing fine. Went to bed around 11 last night. This morning he's gone. No sign. and. Nothing.

The only thing in the tank I can thank that could have possibly eaten him was the coral banded shrimp. I have two. A mated pair.

He showed no signs of wanting to jump out and was sticking close to the bottom of the tank eating happily for many hours before I went to bed. No signs of him in the sump. No signs of fish parts.

At this point I either have a hobbit worm somewhere (I had a green chromis disappear too a couple weeks back but he was significantly larger) now this new wrasse is gone. The Chromis would have been a bit big for the shrimp. I've seen the shrimp snip at my very small harlequin serpent star (who never comes out from under his rock but his arms) but nothing else.

So am I looking at evicting the coral banded shrimp? Or do I need to do a tear down and look for a worm killing fish.

 

[CrayolaViolence]

P.s. no signs of him on the floor either. Even looked under stuff with a flash light.

 

[Joke]

Is he a yellow coris? These wrasses love sleeping and hiding in sand. You can sive though the sand and spook him so you know he is their, but he will come out in a few days if he is in there anyway.
Good luck.☺

 

[Sapelo]

^ This.
He is most likely in the sand.

 

[johnike]

Yep, wrasses bury and sometimes take days to come out.

 

[snorvich]

Yep, wrasses bury and sometimes take days to come out.

Yup. Perhaps jet lagged as well,

 

[Deinonych]

Is he a yellow coris? These wrasses love sleeping and hiding in sand. You can sive though the sand and spook him so you know he is their, but he will come out in a few days if he is in there anyway.
Good luck.☺

If he is in the sand, leave him there. Do NOT go poking around for him. He'll come out when he is ready.

 

[stephen.davis.]

My yellow wrasse took 9 days to come back out (it took 9 days before I saw him come back out) 3 weeks later he keeps a pretty tight schedule.

 

[kmbyrnes]

Yup. Perhaps jet lagged as well,

My Coris and my Tamarin were on odd schedules for months. Finally figured jet lag was the issue.

 

[CrayolaViolence]

I wish I'd read this before I did a full tank tear down. I found him. Yup. buried in the substrate. He seems fine. But on the up side---if you can call it that---I located about 6 large bristle worms in the rocks and a 5 inch Bobbit worm. That's right. I had an F***** Bobbit worm in my tank!!!! It was up inside of a rock, pulled it out with forceps, thing's mouth was wide up with big jaws looking like something out of Dune or Tremmors. At least I found it before it got big. I doubt he killed my Chromis, but who knows. At least I am down another half dozen fire worms and one nasty Bobbit beast that had the potential to become a terror. I found another worm too, couldn't ID it though. It was much shorter and had long feelers on it, but it was very small and skinny and I picked it up with a paper towel and pretty much liquified it.
Now that I've done the mother of all water changes (emptied the tank 60-70%) I'm re-arrangug the rocks. If anything good comes of this it will be a better arrangement for circulation and a dead Bobbit worm.