Wrasse sleeping behavior

[shuguley]

I have a blue sided fairy wrasse in QT. QT tank is a glass bottom, with pvc pipes, sponge filter and heater.

He's been in QT for a little over a week. I swear every night I think he is dead. For the first whole week, he would curl up at night and lay on the bottom of the aquarium and doesn't respond to any visual or audio stimulus at all, then in the morning he is fine.

Well, I finally got used to that, then last night he tries a new position. He slept vertically near the top of the tank pressed up against the sponge filter. Once again he wouldn't respond to any stimulus, but I could tell he was still breathing. I truly expected to wake up to a dead fish this morning. So I get up and he is swimming happy and fine. I have never expereienced a fish with sleeping behaviors like this, is this normal behavior fro a wrasse, or is mine just weird.

 

[cdness]

I had the same type of scare with my clownfish. They slept on their side and wouldn't move. I actually reached in to touch one to see if it was alive and sure enough it swam away like it was groggy... just woke up from a night of rest...

It still bugs me a little and I check on them. I have never seen a fish sleep before...

 

[shuguley]

I don't know if I'll ever get used to my wrasse sleeping like it does, my wife says she hates him, especially after he woke up one morning and shrugged off his mucus cocoon and it floated around the tank until I pulled it out, it was pretty gross, that's another thing we didn't expect.

My clownfish swim in place all night and all day, never stop moving. That's funny about yours. Guess it's each fish to his own.

 

[kzickovich]

when he gets into your dt you won't see him sleeping he will most likly bury himself in your sandbed

 

[sbeane]

I have a scotts fairy wrasse and mine in in QT cause i got ich from a LFS but my wrasse hates the glass bottom so i put some pebble rocks at the bottom. One thing with the wrasse they love sleeping behind rocks...... i would suggest you go and get just a base rock and you will see a difference in him.

 

[Amazon4]

I have a tonozu fairy wrasse in QT right now. He does the same thing. Looks dead and curled up at night. Then when I put the room light on in the morning he swims up and looks for his food.

A agree that once he's in the DT you'll never see him sleeping.

 

[Tangweed]

I have a six line and when the lights go out I don't see him until they are back on.