MorseReef Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Woke up today to find our new cleaner wrasse missing. Did not find him on the floor. Did not find him in the over flow or filter socks. Did not find a body anywhere. He just vanished in the middle of the night. We really wanted him to clean the ich off our hippo tang... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higher Thinking Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Wrasses are pretty prone to hiding when they are new. Whether that be in the sand bed or within holes in the rockwork. I'm not entirely certain on the cleaner wrasse specifically. I wouldn't be too worried just yet. There are countless stories of a wrasse living in the sand for a couple weeks before it starts coming out. On a side note, even if the wrasse is there, I'd consider another approach to dealing with ich. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 My first wrasse stayed buried for about 4 days straight. We turned it into a game: 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdxmonkeyboy Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 I only see my wrasse in the morning before work, never after the halides go off. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The ReefBox Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 I have 9 wrasses in my tank and they all wake up at different times and disappear into the sand and rocks when the Radions go off 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorW Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 My first wrasse stayed buried for about 4 days straight. We turned it into a game:So how many days was he missing before he came out of hiding?Sent from my BLU R1 HD using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 2 hours ago, TaylorW said: So how many days was he missing before he came out of hiding? 4 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorseReef Posted May 22, 2019 Author Share Posted May 22, 2019 Wow, I did not know they hid like that. ours was out all the time for the first few days we had him. I will not give up on him. I will keep looking for him. SuncrestReef, I have been reading your tank build posts. everything you do is just amazing. the planning, quality, precision you put into it shows. I really love you most amazing pictures. I must say they are the best pictures I have ever seen of corals. Which I fail miserably at with my camera phone. I am not getting alot of work done with all your amazing posts. Thank you very much for sharing... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorseReef Posted May 22, 2019 Author Share Posted May 22, 2019 9 hours ago, Higher Thinking said: Wrasses are pretty prone to hiding when they are new. Whether that be in the sand bed or within holes in the rockwork. I'm not entirely certain on the cleaner wrasse specifically. I wouldn't be too worried just yet. There are countless stories of a wrasse living in the sand for a couple weeks before it starts coming out. On a side note, even if the wrasse is there, I'd consider another approach to dealing with ich. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk What would you suggest on the ich? I have some other fish in a QT tank running copper but they seem to keep getting the ich back again. The hippo that has it now in my DT came straight from the LFS and I stupidly did not quarantine him because my QT was already full. I know this was not the best approach but the wife asked for fish on mothers day. The QT tank already has a hippo tang so I did not want to put the new smaller one in with the larger one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manny Tavan Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 if your hippo has ich, then it's in the DT. If you really want to get rid of ich, you'll need to run the DT fallow for a while and treat all the fish in QT. Otherwise, just get used to having ich in the DT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 12 hours ago, MorseReef said: Wow, I did not know they hid like that. ours was out all the time for the first few days we had him. I will not give up on him. I will keep looking for him. SuncrestReef, I have been reading your tank build posts. everything you do is just amazing. the planning, quality, precision you put into it shows. I really love you most amazing pictures. I must say they are the best pictures I have ever seen of corals. Which I fail miserably at with my camera phone. I am not getting alot of work done with all your amazing posts. Thank you very much for sharing... Wow, thanks! Let me know if you ever want me to do a photo shoot of your corals. Just promise that if you get fired for slacking off at work while reading my posts, you don't blame me for it!!! 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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