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I bought a white blenny a few days ago. It was really active for the first couple days. Now, it's just laying on the sand hiding in different spots. It hides in the back of the tank. I tried taking a picture of it and it got scared and moved to a different spot to hide. Is this normal behavior? Any advice would be helpful, thanks.
 
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Weird. If he's eating normally, i'd hope for the best and wait a few days for him/her to come out
It hasn't eaten since ive gotten it.
have you noticed any symptoms of disease?
No it was really active when i bought it. My royal gramma and my inverts are all perfectly normal. I don't get how it could go from swimming around the whole tank to barely moving between 2spots. It also hasn't eaten since i got it like 3-4 days ago. I fed my royal gramma mysis shrimp and the blenny Just got scared of the baster and didn't eat.
 
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Did the new fish go through a QT protocol? How did you acclimate?
It was at the lfs for a month and was doing okay. I temperature acclimated it for like an hour and then i drip acclimated it for like 30-45 minutes.
 

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