Can't trust a wrasse not to jump, so save them from themselves and put a screen cover.
I use a piece of plastic chicken wire (3/8" squares) which attaches to the top of the euro bracing with 3M Command clips. (takes about 15 seconds to take the entire screen off, but normally I just take of 2 or 3 points in a few seconds to add a fish or move a frag/etc.
My most recent install of the chicken wire on my latest tank was about 2 hours after I added a fairy wrasse. (I lucked out trusting a yellow, a mccoskers, and a couple leopards previously, but since I had the stuff I decided not be be lazy)... About an hour after the 10 minute install, I fed the fish and the new wrasse decided to eat (YAY) and then get intimidated by my powder brown and dart out of the water, deflecting the net by about 3-ish inches... I cheered since it was a good show and that he wasn't able to commit suicide!
Cover it, wrasses & blenny's get startled easily and can leave the water.
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Single System Setup: 210G SPS reef, 225G FOWLR, 72G water change, 50G frag, 120G sump. I promise a journal at some point! (anyone need some coral frags? I likely always have stuff that is frag-ready)
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