wrasse and sandbed

[Prince916]

I am starting a new tank and its going to be BB. I am interested in a couple of wrasse's but in the "description" they need sandbed. Do i really need sand beds to keep wrasses such as Radiant, pencil, yellow, green wrasses....etc

 

[caudill187]

I lost a Radiant Wrasse once after he tried to dive into my Sandbed that wasn't deep enough. My experience has been that Fairy wrasses do fine without a deeper sandbed, but the others are iffy.

 

[Wy Renegade]

Yes you do, as stated the wrasse dive into the sandbed when startled, they also use critters out of the sandbed as a supplemental food source.

 

[SaltWaterDave]

Yep, some of them will definitely need a deeper sandbed to sleep, hide and eat out of.

 

[TooTime]

I have seen a thread where someone successfully kept a radiant wrasse without a sand bed. It was a bare bottom tank and he took a plastic container and zip tied it to the back side of his rocks and put sand in it for his wrasse to sleep in. If I was going to do this when I first released the wrasse into the tank I would put in it in a bottle and make sure it went straight into the sand first so that it would know where it was.