Tailspot Blenny still stressed/scared after 2 weeks?

[adittam]

oh really? I mean the saron shrimp apparently grows up to 8cm or smth, original plan was having an invert only tank actually haha
what fish would be a good tankmate for the blenny then? smth like a green clown goby or candy cane goby?

Some ideas:
https://www.liveaquaria.com/category/2124/nano-fish

 

[Antyama]

This is so weird. I'm literally 2 weeks into cycling my 30g, first ever reef tank and was going to only get inverts too, until I saw the tail spot blenny and was just waiting for my cycle to finish! It sounds like we had the exact same idea!

yeah, I mean I love inverts, and while sexy shrimps are pretty active, my saron is like a marionette, peaceful but not the most active creature.
my blenny however is legit like a small puppy dog, he's is just so dang cute!!!
Everytime I go out of the room he peeks behind the rocks to see if I'm gone lol

 

[Katrina71]

My tailspot LOVED my clown. They always swam together openly. I'd suggest a small clown. Not maroon or tomato clown.

 

[BirdFish5000]

I recently bought my first fish and it's a wonderful tailspot blenny, I have him for around 2 weeks now
I acclimated him for around 45 min, and he instantly went to a small cave in my 20g tank and stayed there for about 3-5 days.
After a week he started going out exploring the tank and now chills out ontop of the rocks.
He showed his white pattern camouflage on and off during this whole time, depending on if I left the room, made a waterchange or made sudden movements.
Afaik, this pattern is displayed when they're in stress or "sleeping" during the night right?

I fed him several times now, during which he loses the pattern, then lays on the rocks again, grazes a bit here and there when he thinks I'm not looking, but he still gets the white patterns when I go near the tank :crying-face: The tank parameters are all onpoint, though iron is a bit higher than normal because I added some for my chaeto.
The tank is 3 months old, he was added on the third month. He seems a-ok and fine when I'm not there, but I think he's just scared of me and because the tank is near my pc, I'm basically in front of the tank 8 hours a day.

Will he get less scared or will this constant stress of me being there affect his health? :anxious-face-with-sweat:

He looks good and healthy. Tailspots can be pretty shy.

 

[dtal]

I kind of suspect that it's because he doesn't have a tight hole to hide somewhere, I've actually bought a dead barnacle skeleton that I'm currently curing in a bucket, so gonna see if he likes that.
But yea I hope he will be fine seeing me with time

My tailspot absolutely loves his barnacle cave!! I got him about a week ago and I’m dealing with the same thing though, he’s happy when I’m not there but when he sees me he gets stress stripes. Hoping he’ll just get used to me.