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So I just got home after 2 days away. It was around 1am & my tank lights were off because my light period is from 11am to 11pm. I thought I’d turn them on to feed the fish since they’d probably be at least a little hungry from not having their 4x daily feeding. For some dumb reason I didn’t put up my auto feeder before leaving. But anyways, I look inside & see my two clowns are doing fine, they get up in a few seconds and start moving around. Then I look around & see my yellow tang & he looks ok, super pale but that’s expected in the middle of the night. Then, I see my Kole tang wedged up in a cave sleeping & not moving at all. Thought alright he’s just asleep & I started looking for the blue tang. I looked everywhere & he was nowhere to be found. I even checked the sump but he wasn’t there. I was finally able to locate him. He was behind the Kole tang. Right when I saw this I thought what thef because this isn't usual at all. Neither seemed to be moving at all. I thought one might have killed the other or something of the sort. I put my hand in the tank and started waving my hand towards it to push flow & the Kole tang started squirming & swam away slowly but the blue tang didn’t move at all. I told myself alright he could still be alive so I got a turkey baster & started lightly poking at him & he still wouldn’t move at all! I also gave some good forced pokes too along with moving his tail fin. Btw he’s upside down. I was really upset after not seeing any movement. I started to pick up my some of my rock work to get him out and while I was doing this I saw him move a little bit. I was super relieved. He went downwards, wedged himself under another rock & back to sleep he went ;Hilarious I’m not sure if all blue tangs are like this but mine seems to be a suuuper heavy sleeper. I often catch him sleeping during the day too. I’m still shocked he didn’t move at all from my force & poking. Super glad he’s still alive though & thought I’d share this story on here
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