Six-banded Wrasse

Six-banded Wrasse Art on Canvas in a Red Bijou Frame. The six-banded wrasse is a species of fish that lives in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. It inhabits reef environments at depths from the surface down to 15 meters (50 feet), typically between 4-30 m deep. It is a greenish fish with dark bars on its upper body and two more saddle-like bars over the tail region. Larger adults have pink streaks radiating from near their eye. They are native to the tropical Indo-Pacific. They can be found in East Africa, Madagascar, Japan and various island groups in the Western Pacific. An aquarium fish of this species was observed to use a rock as an anvil. The fish was fed pellets that were too hard for it to chew and too large for it to swallow. The fish carried each pellet to a particular rock where it succeeded in breaking the pellet in pieces. It used the same behaviour and the same rock on a number of occasions, demonstrating a capacity for remembering how to solve the hard-pellet