Twinkie, the Wrasse!

fishgirljockey · Mar 29, 2023

Hi y’all!

This is Twinkie, the Wrasse! Let’s see your Wrasses! I’m curious to see if anyone else’s Wrasse loves to dive and burry themselves in the sand? Like clockwork, Twinkie goes in at 9/9:30pm and wakes up at 9/9:30am. It’s amazing to see! Even though he makes such a mess. Love this Wrasse to death! They have amazing personalities

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blaxsun · Mar 29, 2023

Twinkie is a great name! I never manage to catch my wrasses burying at night (just the mess they leave behind).

fishgirljockey · Mar 29, 2023

blaxsun said:
Twinkie is a great name! I never manage to catch my wrasses burying at night (just the mess they leave behind).

lol so messy!!

Lavey29 · Mar 29, 2023

It's completely common for certain species of wrasse to do this behavior. My yellow coris is like clock work but the mucus cocoon that the 6 line makes to sleep in is a little on the gross side.

blaxsun · Mar 30, 2023

Lavey29 said:
It's completely common for certain species of wrasse to do this behavior. My yellow coris is like clock work but the mucus cocoon that the 6 line makes to sleep in is a little on the gross side.

I see your 6-line mucous cocoon and raise you my parrotfish mucous cocoon (it sometimes looks like someone blew their nose in the tank!)

homer1475 · Mar 30, 2023

Very common for sand sleepers.

I'm guessing, hard to tell from the video, but it looks like you have a melanarus wrasse(Halichoeres melanurus). Great first wrasse.

I have plenty of sand sleepers. Melagris leopard, yellow corris, moyers leopard, and a yellow tail tamarin. You can set your watch to their sleeping habits. I have never seen mine hit the sand at night as they sleep behind my rockwork.