red wrasse

[krish]

HI guys

i got a new red wrasse in my tank it was fine and its been a week its disappeared.any suggestions??

 

[blaxsun]

If you have any caves, crevices or rock ledges I'd check there with a small flashlight (wrassea love hiding in rocks). Have you checked your overflow/sump?

 

[krish]

If you have any caves, crevices or rock ledges I'd check there with a small flashlight (wrassea love hiding in rocks). Have you checked your overflow/sump?

Good day
Thanks for your reply. I checked everywhere in my tank no place left now. I really don’t know what happened to him so sad

 

[i cant think]

Good day
Thanks for your reply. I checked everywhere in my tank no place left now. I really don’t know what happened to him so sad

Do you know what species it was?
By the sounds of it I would say it’s in the sandbed and is a sand sleeping wrasse. Those wrasses can vanish for days to weeks in some cases a month+ and rise out like nothing happened.

 

[nereefpat]

Did it jump out? Check everywhere around the tank. I'm also curious as to the species. Red wrasse, to me, indicates a fairy of some kind.

 

[i cant think]

Did it jump out? Check everywhere around the tank. I'm also curious as to the species. Red wrasse, to me, indicates a fairy of some kind.

You may assume that as many fairies are red however you also have many juvenile Halichoeres and coris wrasses that are red. Also Halichoeres lapillus in some areas goes under the name “Red Wrasse”.

 

[robospa]

I have a fairy wrasse that i have not seen for years. He hides in the pvc piping, or in the rocks. When I remove the rocks and pvc piping into buckets, he will suddenly appear.

 

[robospa]

Whoops.

 

[i cant think]

I have a fairy wrasse that i have not seen for years. He hides in the pvc piping, or in the rocks. When I remove the rocks and pvc piping into buckets, he will suddenly appear.

That sounds more like stress than anything, what are the tabkmates?

 

[robospa]

That sounds more like stress than anything, what are the tabkmates?

That brings me to the story of when I purchased the fish at the pet store, actually i bought reef rock, and he showed up when i arrived home. It's a 3 hour drive from the pet store, so the reef rock was put in a 55 gal. igloo. When i brought the igloo into the house, upon opening it, there he was barely alive! I quickly put him into the tank where he miraculously survived, and is alive today somewhere in the tank!

 

[i cant think]

That brings me to the story of when I purchased the fish at the pet store, actually i bought reef rock, and he showed up when i arrived home. It's a 3 hour drive from the pet store, so the reef rock was put in a 55 gal. igloo. When i brought the igloo into the house, upon opening it, there he was barely alive! I quickly put him into the tank where he miraculously survived, and is alive today somewhere in the tank!

Have you got any photos of him? Or what species he is?

 

[krish]

Do you know what species it was?
By the sounds of it I would say it’s in the sandbed and is a sand sleeping wrasse. Those wrasses can vanish for days to weeks in some cases a month+ and rise out like nothing happened.

I hope so

 

[robospa]

Have you got any photos of him? Or what species he is?

Unfortunately I do not have a photo. The next time I remove the pvc piping, that i think he is in, I will snap a photo, and post it.

Have you got any photos of him? Or what species he is?

Have you got any photos of him? Or what species he is?

 

[robospa]

He is a Moon Wrasse, Thalassoma Lunare.

 

[i cant think]

He is a Moon Wrasse, Thalassoma Lunare.

Thought so, I recommend trying to have a bit more rockwork to have it feel secure. When he comes out he will be a rather aggressive wrasse.

 

[robospa]

He is a Moon Wrasse, Thalassoma Lunare.

When i switched from a 55 gal. to the 90 gal that is pictured, I had thought the wrasse had died. Then I looked into the pvc pipe, and saw an object, and touched it with a probe. It really gave me a jolt when the fish started to move, and to my surprise, it was the fairy wrasse! He's also survived jumping out of the tank before I got the screens, lying on the floor, I put him back into the tank where he sat at the bottom, not moving for a minute, but started swimming once again.

 

[i cant think]

When i switched from a 55 gal. to the 90 gal that is pictured, I had thought the wrasse had died. Then I looked into the pvc pipe, and saw an object, and touched it with a probe. It really gave me a jolt when the fish started to move, and to my surprise, it was the fairy wrasse! He's also survived jumping out of the tank before I got the screens, lying on the floor, I put him back into the tank where he sat at the bottom, not moving for a minute, but started swimming once again.

Thalassoma isn’t actually the fairy wrasse genus. The fairy wrasse a are part of the genus Cirrhilabrus. Even the most aggressive ones of that genus barely compare to the Thalassomas.