Hi folks!
So I bought a new Checkerboard Wrasse home last night. After acclimating him, I put him in the tank. Watched him for a few minutes to make sure he was fine and none of the other fish were bothering him and all was good. I went to get my phone to take a pic and came back and he has been missing since! I have moved most of my rock around and stirred some of the sand up, but unless he is hiding really REALLY good, it seems like he has vanished! In the unlikely event that other fish ate him, surely I would have seen bits of him...I was only away for 2 or 3 minutes. A I have checked the floor around the tank in case he happened to jump out, but nothing. He's a juvenile, only 2 inches and he's not much smaller than the largest fish in the tank. And I have no snails or crabs in the tank.
Are Checkerboard Wrasses known to hide very, very good like this or what?
So I bought a new Checkerboard Wrasse home last night. After acclimating him, I put him in the tank. Watched him for a few minutes to make sure he was fine and none of the other fish were bothering him and all was good. I went to get my phone to take a pic and came back and he has been missing since! I have moved most of my rock around and stirred some of the sand up, but unless he is hiding really REALLY good, it seems like he has vanished! In the unlikely event that other fish ate him, surely I would have seen bits of him...I was only away for 2 or 3 minutes. A I have checked the floor around the tank in case he happened to jump out, but nothing. He's a juvenile, only 2 inches and he's not much smaller than the largest fish in the tank. And I have no snails or crabs in the tank.
Are Checkerboard Wrasses known to hide very, very good like this or what?