My new little frag buddy.
- Thread starter Bruce Spiegelman
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He's adorable!
scuzy
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Well he does look like the grumpy old man in the movie up.
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Coral reefer
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Why do people look like their pets so much?
Diver's Den
I actually have a hard time finding him even in the frag tank since the front of him is a perfect color match for coralline.
Here.... this will help:
Cruz Mc5
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That’s what I was thinking but didn’t want to ask, lol.
It's hard to describe his movements. It's not as much a swim as a desperate shaking of hos whole body trying to reach a place where he can use his fins to wedge himself in. He is presently sleeping in either a little rock cave that put in the frag tank or a 1: PVC pipe section. As to eating -- umm no. Because I've never seen him eat.
Here's the whole story. He's been in the tank over a month. When I first received him from DD he was alive, but floating on the top of the bag. Turned out he had a swim bladder issue. I placed him in a acclimation box in the frag tank where he floated for over a week while I hoped he'd heal. Since i knew he came from Diver's Den, and with no evidence of bacterial or parasitic infection, I was assuming the swim bladder issue might be caused by stress and a change in environment especially since the box came in fairly cold. After about a week I saw that he kept trying to swim down and eventually was wedging himself in the bottom corner of the acclimation box. During all of this time he would not eat.
After a few more days he still wasn't swimming or perching, but kept trying to reach the bottom. I figured his only shot was literally to sink or swim, so I let him out in the frag tank. With difficulty he made his way to the bottom and wedged himself in. I saw him most of that day, but the next day he was just gone. I looked everywhere in a small frag tank and he was no where to be seen. I looked for the next few days but he had vanished.
A month went by and I never saw him. Then three or four days ago I decided I'd re-do the frag tank after using the PAR meter. I took out the frag rack altogether. A day later I saw him again for the first time! No clue what, or if he ate during that month. I now take a little tube and drop a few Mysis every day in front of him, but he mostly seems to ignore them. Perhaps he just has never eaten since I got him. He doesn't move much and presumably doesn't burn much energy. I know a lot of people only feed theirs once or twice a week anyway. I'll keep trying, but maybe he's finding stuff during the night as well. I'm hoping.
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