Yellow Wrasse

[fishlips]

Dose anyone have a Wrasse (Halichoeres chrysus) in a Bare bottom tank.

 

[raz0945]

They sleep in the sand. A lot of them break their jaws when they dive for cover without the sand.

 

[fishlips]

How about placing a bowl of Deep sand and tell him where its at.

 

[bcavalli]

Some of the members use a wrasse box. It's simply a 4 or 5" deep acrylic box filled with sand.

 

[fishlips]

Hopefully they will chime in, maybe show a pic. And Thanks.

 

[hzheng33]

Fishlips;1096771 wrote: Hopefully they will chime in, maybe show a pic. And Thanks.

I used a box filled with 3 or 4 inches of sand for my wrasse during qt process. and it worked as intended.

 

[bcavalli]

I've made a few. I don't have one on hand to take a pic. Maybe, someone with one will post one.

 

[fishlips]

That would be great. Thanks.

 

[hzheng33]

also, if you don't mind it being ugly, you can always use tubeware or pyrex container

 

[raz0945]

I used a large deep rubbermaid container in my frag tank, my wrasse knocked out sand . I just vaccumed it up when I did my water change.

 

[fishlips]

Got another question, Will a yellow Wrasse bother my cleaner shrimp.

 

[hzheng33]

in my experience, no

 

[hiimsean]

It's always possible though. Halichoeres</em> species wrasses are know to go for inverts, that's why a lot of sites will list them as non-reef safe. I have a melanurus wrasse that won't think twice about making a shrimp it's dinner.