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I got a potters wrasse on Sunday.
I drip acclimated to the tank and then released it.
When I turned to put the net away, the fish dived under the sand (normal)
It stayed there all day and night.
The next day (Monday), before the lights came on, I saw the fish come out of the sand,
cruise up the rockwork(for less than 1 minute), then dive back into the sand...
where it stayed all day and night- again.
Tuesday I saw the tail end of the fish (again before the lights came on) sticking up from the sand-
like an ostrich with his head in the ground. when I peeked in again 5 minutes later- buried again (big sandstorm to prove it).
Today-Wednesday,I check the tank before the lights- no wrasse....
now that the lights have come on- still no wrasse, just a mound in the sandbed where she's buried.
How long can this behavior continue before I should start to worry?
Before this reef tank, I've NEVER had such bad luck keeping fish!
The only other fish in the tank is a small school of green chromis- all doing fine.
I drip acclimated to the tank and then released it.
When I turned to put the net away, the fish dived under the sand (normal)
It stayed there all day and night.
The next day (Monday), before the lights came on, I saw the fish come out of the sand,
cruise up the rockwork(for less than 1 minute), then dive back into the sand...
where it stayed all day and night- again.
Tuesday I saw the tail end of the fish (again before the lights came on) sticking up from the sand-
like an ostrich with his head in the ground. when I peeked in again 5 minutes later- buried again (big sandstorm to prove it).
Today-Wednesday,I check the tank before the lights- no wrasse....
now that the lights have come on- still no wrasse, just a mound in the sandbed where she's buried.
How long can this behavior continue before I should start to worry?
Before this reef tank, I've NEVER had such bad luck keeping fish!
The only other fish in the tank is a small school of green chromis- all doing fine.
