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I have a nano 14g, only have 2 Clowns and a Royal gramma, the clowns are slightly bigger as they eat more than the gramma, the RG was added last about 5 months ago, the fish have never fought, when I put him in he hide for the first couple of days, then started swimming around the tank but again after a few days he stayed in the cave apart from eating, he would maybe lay on his side on the rock next to his cave but that’s about it.
Fast forward to yesterday, he came out on the sand bed, I thought he was dead as it was so strange seeing him out, he moved around the sand bed a little, again seemingly as if he was dying, his movements were so strange, when I have previously seen him swim it would be in the mid waters. A very confident swimmer and fast. So to see him on the sand was weird, he then moved into the clowns area which had them flicking sand on him, but he just sat there, didn’t move or fight back, he did this a couple of times, he then seemed to go back into his cave, but this morning he has totally moved into the clowns area, right in the middle, the area is behind the rock works, he is sat bang in the middle up against the rock looking at the clowns, seems they think he’s weirder than they are and have given up flicking sand on him.
Sorry for the long post but thought it best to try and give all the details, anyone know what’s going on, is this aggression? Has anyone experienced similar behaviour? He would defend his cave if the cleaner shrimp got too near, the shrimp has lost a few feelers as he’s either too thick to move or brave don’t know which but the cleaner would hold his ground lol so I find the gramma just moving out of his cave into the clowns area so strange!
Fast forward to yesterday, he came out on the sand bed, I thought he was dead as it was so strange seeing him out, he moved around the sand bed a little, again seemingly as if he was dying, his movements were so strange, when I have previously seen him swim it would be in the mid waters. A very confident swimmer and fast. So to see him on the sand was weird, he then moved into the clowns area which had them flicking sand on him, but he just sat there, didn’t move or fight back, he did this a couple of times, he then seemed to go back into his cave, but this morning he has totally moved into the clowns area, right in the middle, the area is behind the rock works, he is sat bang in the middle up against the rock looking at the clowns, seems they think he’s weirder than they are and have given up flicking sand on him.
Sorry for the long post but thought it best to try and give all the details, anyone know what’s going on, is this aggression? Has anyone experienced similar behaviour? He would defend his cave if the cleaner shrimp got too near, the shrimp has lost a few feelers as he’s either too thick to move or brave don’t know which but the cleaner would hold his ground lol so I find the gramma just moving out of his cave into the clowns area so strange!
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