Red-headed Fairy Wrasse behavior

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A couple months ago, I added a Red-headed Fairy Wrasse to the tank. My Mimic Tang bullied it for a bit, until it lost interest, but the wrasse spent quite a bit of time hiding and peaking out to see if the coast was clear. Then I went on vacation. I've had an issue with return flow, I had to turn it way down, but I was able to fix it when I got back, but I've noticed the wrasse is a completely different animal now. He has a severe case of the zoomies, swimming rapidly across the tank, up from the bottom to the top, back down, all over the place. It's pretty cool, as long as it's normal. I want to make sure this behavioral change is not symptomatic of something bad....
 
Fairies are active obe adjusted, for sure.

Can you post a YouTube video?
How big is the tank?
 
It's a 240 gallon deep bowfront. Six feet long. I'll see if I can get a video.
 
OK, hopefully you can play this:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YeL7u87AYAZoHMUb8

Note: He doesn't seem as frantic here, maybe I'm just getting used to it
Note2: That's not food flying around, it's the remnants of bacterial gloop (I think?) blown out when I fixed my slow drains and turned up the return pump. He definitely gets more excited when its food, but then again they all do.
 

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