Wrasse sleeping under elegance

[Crystabel]

Hi all,

I have a lubbock fairy wrasse and the last few days, the new spot it sleeps in is at the base of our elegance coral...

Is it OK? It has been a few days and so far all is well but i am worried it will get hurt!

Do i need to try to prevent her from going there?

Thanks in advance!

Isabelle

 

[Steelerfan747]

Should be ok. Fish are smart and will not go where they can get hurt.

 

[chort55]

Should be ok. Fish are smart and will not go where they can get hurt.

+1, and really your only way of protecting it would be to remove one or the other... trying to coax it out of there and keep it out if thats where it wants to be will be nearly impossibly especially long term.

 

[chort55]

Actually trying to move it out could cause more damage then good even as you could damage the elegance, or cause the wrasse to get bumped by it at a stronger point and cause damage or death to the elegance (assuming the coral is strong enough to sting the fish enough to do serious damage).

 

[evolved]

Wouldn't concern me. I'm willing to bet the mucus cocoon would protect the fish from any potential sting of the elegance anyway.

 

[uall8up]

Should be ok. Fish are smart and will not go where they can get hurt.

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Agree. If it was being stung it would leave. I have an emerald crab that lives under my BTA.

 

[chort55]

Wouldn't concern me. I'm willing to bet the mucus cocoon would protect the fish from any potential sting of the elegance anyway.

I didn't even think about the mucus cocoon they sleep in.... but it would still be "at risk" on its in/out trips before it starts its nap.... but again, it wouldn't keep doing it if it was in any danger.

 

[Crystabel]

Ok i wouldn't have touched it exactly as I was worried to cause more trouble!! But i was wondering if i had to try to prevent this....
But will cross my fingers all continues to go well... Shrimps walk all over it and fishes sometimes pick at it when I feed....

Thanks alot!

Will try to get a picture!

 

[Cl0ne1]

Just to tell you how smart these guys are. I HAD a hovens wrasse, he was way too smart and ate a pistol shrimp's head right off just seconds after I put him in the tank. He knew what he was up against. He didn't just attack it. He spotted it, came over, hovered above the pistol for a second and went straight down to the head. He didn't go at it from the front and he attacked it while his body was vertical, not at an angle. Anyways, I spot feed my torch and that freakin wrasse would take food from the mouth of that torch without getting stung. I wouldn't worry too much about him. Yes I got rid of my wrasse because nothing...NOTHING messes with my midas blenny or my pistol shrimp.

Tank you for your time,

Kevin