Xmas Wrasse Cant Find It!! Help

[MRCORAL]

Ok, just got this guy last night. I have not seen him all day. Had 4 different people check all over the room to see if he jumped nothing!! Try to look all over the tank nothing. Any ideas?

 

[DamnDamsel]

Maybe sleeping in your sand bed?

 

[MRCORAL]

All day and night? Really

 

[hawkfish21]

My Christmas Wrasse hid for a week before he reappeared. Give it some time.

 

[MSAreef]

I also had a xmas wrasse that hid for at least 5 days when I first got him. We went crazy looking for his secret hiding place and I had him for 3 years and still never figured out where he went at night. After he acclimated, he was always out during the day. I was sure he was dead at first. He used to leap out of the tank and I think he managed to hit his head once. He was never the same. For many months he swam upside down like a dying fish. It was really hard to watch! When I upgraded my tank and was able to catch him, I euthenized him. I really liked that fish.

 

[Reefing102]

ditto to what the others said, also something that has happened at our lfs is that the fish jumped down the back of the tank and landed into the sump.

 

[MRCORAL]

What store do you work at in MD?

 

[Doubledown]

Give him some time as the others had said. I have a H. Biocellotus (sp?) - looks like a purple x-mas wrasse - that we started calling "daylight savings" because we didn't see him during the day for the first 3 weeks he was in the tank. After the first week he would come out from his hiding place for only a few hours really early in the morning and went back when the sun came up.

He swims around like he owns the place now.

Make sure to cover your tank - mine jumped once through a 2 inch gap in a tank cover I left ajar for 15 minutes and I have heard him bounce off the acrylic covers on my tank more than once since then.

 

[jessp]

i had a cori wrasse i was sure was dead, two weeks later i looked on the outside of my prefilter box and he was swimming in there happy as a pig in mud. eating an accumulation of pods. unfortunately it was small but i was so happy to find him and put him in his rightful place. but back to the topic, he and his partner hid for a week coming out very infrequently for the first couple weeks.