Twinkie, the Wrasse!

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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.
 

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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!)
 

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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.
 

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