Brieninsac
04/04/2018, 05:43 PM
I thought I'd share this little story since I'd never seen this before in my brief time in the hobby.
A couple weeks ago I was doing some work in the tank and out of the corner of my eye I see my Blue-sided fairy wrasse jumped out of the tank and landed right on the tile floor. I quickly scooped him up in a towel and placed him back in the tank.
He sunk to the bottom nose down by some rocks and I just felt awful. But then a few minutes later the craziest thing I've ever saw happened, my Coral Beauty went over to him and waived his tail in front of the wrasse, kinda like you'd fan a towel in front of someone knocked out. At first I thought he was being aggressive to the downed fish but as I watched longer he continued to do it. He'd swim around for a few seconds and then go right back to the wrasse, turn around and waive his tail in front of the wrasse's head. The wrasse was pretty out of it and didn't really react. The Coral Beauty did this for about 5-10 minutes and eventually swam off.
To my amazement a few hours later the wrasse was swimming around albeit kinda slow. A day later he was back to himself and is still thriving today. But I had never seen that before and thought it was really cool.
A couple weeks ago I was doing some work in the tank and out of the corner of my eye I see my Blue-sided fairy wrasse jumped out of the tank and landed right on the tile floor. I quickly scooped him up in a towel and placed him back in the tank.
He sunk to the bottom nose down by some rocks and I just felt awful. But then a few minutes later the craziest thing I've ever saw happened, my Coral Beauty went over to him and waived his tail in front of the wrasse, kinda like you'd fan a towel in front of someone knocked out. At first I thought he was being aggressive to the downed fish but as I watched longer he continued to do it. He'd swim around for a few seconds and then go right back to the wrasse, turn around and waive his tail in front of the wrasse's head. The wrasse was pretty out of it and didn't really react. The Coral Beauty did this for about 5-10 minutes and eventually swam off.
To my amazement a few hours later the wrasse was swimming around albeit kinda slow. A day later he was back to himself and is still thriving today. But I had never seen that before and thought it was really cool.