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This weekend (Sat) I got a bonded pair of pencil wrasses and a melanarus wrasse at my LFS. They had come in last Wednesday and the guy at the store said they had emerged from hiding in the sand bed on Friday. When I added them to my tank the male pencil and the melanarus dove straight into the sand. The female pencil did not. She has been out and about every day since, but the other two wrasses have not emerged yet. They've now been in the sand for three days - longer than they were at the LFS. Just curious how long they can stay under, especially since I don't think they'd eaten much if any since arriving at the LFS, and certainly not in my tank. Is it possible, if they die from the stress, that they never come out and I have to dig for them?
I know this is not exactly abnormal, wrasses just always freak me out with how long they disappear for so I'm curious what other people have experienced with these species.
I know this is not exactly abnormal, wrasses just always freak me out with how long they disappear for so I'm curious what other people have experienced with these species.