Why does my fish sleep early?

[dnguyen1]

My lights don't go off to actinics until 11:30P , all the fish are out and about until a bit past that.

However, my flasher wrasse hits the hay at around 9:00-9:30... is there a reason why it's so early?? I've never experienced anything like this ..... haha

 

[Recty]

My dragon wrasse consistently went to bed before all my other fish... like about an hour before the light went out, he would be gone into the sandbed.

Fish probably feel tired just like other creatures and need to recharge, maybe he's a diabetic fish or something and needs a little more TLC

 

[humaguy]

mine also know when the lights are about to go off...some are in already in bed by the time the whites are off...other when the actinics go off...some night owls are up and swimming when only the moon lights are still on...

 

[snorvich]

I have had similar "issues" with fish. Lights on a timer set the fish's biological clock and new fish take a while to adjust their biological clock to your time. Especially relevant with fish recently arrived from a radically different time zone.

 

[dnguyen1]

Ah, good to know that it's a normal situation... just a shame cuz I never get to see him w/ actinics, he's such a beaut too.

 

[snorvich]

Well, eventually he might adjust. Feeding after he goes to bed might reset his clock.

 

[albano]

I have had similar "issues" with fish. Lights on a timer set the fish's biological clock and new fish take a while to adjust their biological clock to your time. Especially relevant with fish recently arrived from a radically different time zone.

+1...wrasses especially...once their 'internal' clock is set, even turning the lights on early doesn't wake them! :eek1:

 

[aleonn]

I had a yellow "coris" wrasse that was up at opposite lighting hours when I first got him. He was probably "jet-lagged" from being exported from overseas. It took a few months for him to gradually adjust to my lighting schedule.

 

[lilalove]

I've had my melanurus wrasse for well over a year. It wakes up AFTER lights on at 8 a.m. and is buried by the time I get home at 7 p.m. I only see him eat once or twice a week, but he's as fat as ever. My recently acquired red lined wrasse wakes up before the lights come on, but is also buried by the time I get home. I think wrasses just like to turn in early.

 

[snorvich]

I think wrasses just like to turn in early.

Me too. My leopards always go into the sand early. But they get up early (lights on at 6 AM)

 

[dnguyen1]

I had a yellow "coris" wrasse that was up at opposite lighting hours when I first got him. He was probably "jet-lagged" from being exported from overseas. It took a few months for him to gradually adjust to my lighting schedule.

Jet-lagging made me crack up

 

[sandwi54]

that's pretty typical for wrasses. my christmas and redhead solon fairy wrasses both wake up late (after the lights come on for a while) and go to sleep about an hour before lights go out.

 

[RobE]

When I first got my divided leopard wrasse he was up before 10am and in bed by 5pm, i hardly ever saw him. He has finally gotten on a better schedule up at 1pm in bed at midnight like clock work every day.

 

[EllieSuz]

We had a power outage tonight and my McCosker's dove under a rock near the bottom with his tail sticking out. I turned the main lights out, but when the power came back on the moon lights lit up and he moved somewhere more private. Who says fish don't have personality?

 

[blitz560]

Wrasses do seem to have more of an internal clock. My yellow coris is up about an hour after lights on and back in the sand about an hour before lights out. My Carpenter flasher however, gets up and goes to sleep like clock work right as my lights come on and off.

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

I wonder whether they are avoiding the times when their natural predators would be present in the wild.

 

[piusma]

Mine sorta does the same thing. It is possible that they needed extra time to find a safe hiding place for the night and would rather do it before the sun goes down. My leopards all goes to sleep early and my flashers and fairies follows later.

Usually my leapards will be asleep around the time my MH goes off and no where to been seen during my atintic hours.

Steven

 

[miwoodar]

My regal tang is always the first to bed. I think it's his way of calling dibs on the spot he wants.

 

[Hagisan]

My green wrasse and six-line have always been early to bed/early to rise.

 

[MIKE NY]

it took weeks for my Leopard to get into the Eastern Time Zone....LOL