Wanted: Yellow Coris Wrasse Info

[Delphinus]

Mine made it through an eggcrate cover too. I think he jumped with such force he actually lifted the eggcrate right up and then it fell back in place because I just can't believe a 5/8" girth fish could otherwise find a trajectory through 1/2" square holes and pass through. The bird net idea might be better than eggcrate but I'd say it needs to be weighted down somehow. Wrasses are very persistent at wanting to jump out, it's worth the extra effort to make sure they can't do it.. IMO

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Mine made it through an eggcrate cover too. I think he jumped with such force he actually lifted the eggcrate right up and then it fell back in place because I just can't believe a 5/8" girth fish could otherwise find a trajectory through 1/2" square holes and pass through. The bird net idea might be better than eggcrate but I'd say it needs to be weighted down somehow. Wrasses are very persistent at wanting to jump out, it's worth the extra effort to make sure they can't do it.. IMO

In my old 54g I had a whack load of egg crating set up for holding frags and my adult Red Corris (About 5 inches long by atleast an inch dorsal to ventral) would regularly swim right through it. Of course he would swim right through it to knock all my frags over but that's a different story.

My yellow has been a model citizen for his whole duration in the tank, he never fights and is constantly on the hunt. Great fish to keep for sure!

[Delphinus]

Swimming through, I could sort of visualize, but jumping - you'd think he's already going to come out of the water surface at an angle .. either way I'm just impressed (for lack of a better word) that he managed his way through it (by lifting it or passing through, who knows..).

[daniella3d]

I am not surprised. If you look at how a wrase dive into practicaly solid substract and sand like it was going through butter, it does not surprise me they can slice their body into the egg crate holes.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Swimming through, I could sort of visualize, but jumping - you'd think he's already going to come out of the water surface at an angle .. either way I'm just impressed (for lack of a better word) that he managed his way through it (by lifting it or passing through, who knows..).