Do I need sand in acclimation box for carpenter's flasher wrasse?

Daniel@R2R · Feb 19, 2014

Can't remember if the carpenter's flasher wrasse needs sand for sleeping or not. Can someone help?

bsagea · Feb 19, 2014

I always thought wrasses needed sand. It is in both display tanks and in the QT I put a small plastic container for the resident melanurus. He swished most of it out over time that the other morning I saw him sleeping in the container belly up so he could feel the sand on his back. I guess it's time to refill the container.

Daniel@R2R · Feb 19, 2014

Some wrasses do, and some don't. I just have a hard time remembering which ones are which.

m88a2 · Feb 19, 2014

a piece of pcv to hide/sleep in should be fine

saltyhog · Feb 19, 2014

Flashers and fairies don't sleep in the sand. Halichoeres and leopards do. He will be fine with just the PVC like m88 said.

I've QT'd three different Halichoeres for 8 weeks each without sand. They all adapted and did well.

NC2WA · Feb 19, 2014

what salthog said....carpenters don't need sand to sleep

Daniel@R2R · Feb 20, 2014

Thanks! I appreciate you guys. He's in an acclimation box sleeping in a pvc pipe. ;-)

evolved · Feb 20, 2014

It's a matter of genus. Paracheilinus sleep in the rock-work in a mucus cocoon.

Genera which require sand: Anampses, Coris, Halichoeres, Macropharyngodon, Pseudojuloides, & Thalassoma.