Halichoeres melanurus

Sleeping H melanurus comes up from the sand.

[@soulpatrolhawaii5409]

Very cool! I have one too, but haven’t been able to video him waking up or going to sleep like you did. Did it take a number of tries to capture it on video?

[@RogerJDalton]

No actually not. This was in the quarantine so after a couple of weeks study i did now the place and time.

[@soulpatrolhawaii5409]

@@RogerJDalton I guess mine is not quite as precise as yours. He goes to sleep and wakes up at roughly the same times daily, but not exactly-it can vary up to an hour. Guess I’ll have to be more patient if I want to catch it on video….

[@RogerJDalton]

@@soulpatrolhawaii5409 if you now where just rig upp the camera and let it roll till he comes upp and cut the film