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Thanks.. And that at least makes me feel better that I didn't kill him over a stupid mistake with the transfer
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Thanks.. And that at least makes me feel better that I didn't kill him over a stupid mistake with the transfer
I agree with your assessment. Ornamental fish have yet to develop a working prototype of shark detection sonar. Because of this, they tend to look at other fish to see if they are threatened. If all of the other fish are hiding (because they aren't in view in the tank) fish will feel like there is a nearby threat. This is the entire concept behind dithering fish. These fish feel safe in a school so they swim out in the open and use different tactics to stay safe. When non schooling fish see a school of fish acting normal they feel it is safe to come out. Very few lightly stocked tanks will have actively swimming fish. They are almost always all hiding or at least very skittish.Much appreciated Meredith!
My Sailfin is eating great, but my Kole tang and the Foxface are still very shy and hiding in the rocks, so I'm going to do a decent feeding tonight and see if I can get them out to eat with some garlic in the mysis, and some nori sheets. I guess it had to be stress with the Naso, because the Kole and Foxface have always been out in the open swimmers; I guess the change from being in a cramped dark container to a wide open landscape with no close neighbors now is pretty frightening for them...hoping the lights off period and some food will do the trick this evening!
I thought about getting some of these since they are known to be immune to both Ich and Velvet so no QT required. I'm just not sure they are reef safe.Hey it sounds good to me, and an excellent selling point to the wife when it comes time to buy more fish...I have to buy more to keep them healthy!!
Update: all 3 fish in the DT are out swimming and eating!!! The foxface and sailfish ate a good amount of mysis, the kole tang wasn't interested in the shrimp, but he did come out and start munching on some nori, so we are making progress...what a relief!!
Hmm, I don't think so, they've stayed put but I only saw it a couple hours ago. And those in the picture are very flat worm-ish looking, this is perfectly circular, so it's hard to say. It almost looks like a scale coming off, but too circular to be a scale