STRANGE fish behavior

[Alfredo De La Fe]

My wife just finished witnesses our large maroon clown "attack" a stylophora (pretty large heavy piece), pick it up and drop it behind the rockwork. This coral is the size of a baseball!

I'm still trying to figure out how it was able to lift it and carry it so far!!!

-Alfred

 

[nanoreefer22]

Muscle clown syndrome. Every now and then clowns develop a tendency to lift rocks and coral in an attempt to make more swimming room in the water column. So they'll take whatever it is that is blocking them and throw it behind the rocks. Tends to happen most with Maroon clowns.

To be honest ^^^^^^ thats a pile of BS. But it's really wierd. You wouldn't happened to have got this on video. First time I've heard of anything like this. Did you get the colony back or did he put it in a unreachable spot?

 

[Alfredo De La Fe]

The colony was in front of a rock, no way it could have fallen back, OVER a large rock to land behind the rockwork.

My wife SAW it pick up the stylo and carry/dump it behind rocks out of it's way. (I had placed it somewhat in front of it's anemone where it tends to swim out to ask for food)

-Alfred

 

[jhale]

is the tank new a TV? maybe it saw a home maker over show and was just rearanging the tank If there are matching curtains on the overflow and front of the tank in the am you'll know what happened.

 

[herman]

Id be pissed to if I had a pice of pink piece of furniture

 

[House of Laughter]

This is not uncommon - maroons always rearrange "the furniture" - I say get rid of him and get 2 smaller ones in it's place.

House

 

[Pedro]

I experienced this first hand with my late Maroon clown. She would move anything i placed in the vicinity of the anemone. I also wondered who was doing it until i saw her carry a large piece with her mouth. From what i understand, this is more common with Maroons. Just yield and put the coral somewhere else!

 

[nanoreefer22]

Wait you mean somepart of my BS'ing was right?!

 

[House of Laughter]

Wait you mean somepart of my BS'ing was right?!

Now you're catching on . . . .

LOL

J

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

It's very COMMON, nano. My tomatoe does it and my GSM does it too. If you spent enough time with them you would see they do process a very interesting personality-including house keeping.

In fact, my GSM even carries anemone crabs back to the anemone when the crabs are too far away from the house(anemone). My tomatoe would throw away a piece of coral aciidentally dropped into her cave right the way. I obeserved similar events with my business associates tanks many times before I own my first SW.

 

[Alfredo De La Fe]

I know that they do some "house cleaning", but this piece was easily 5x it's size and must have weighed at least 20x it's weight!!!

-Alfred

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I know that they do some "house cleaning", but this piece was easily 5x it's size and must have weighed at least 20x it's weight!!!

-Alfred

Wow :shocked1: that's something I have not seen!!!! The largest one I saw my tomato moved, not carried up, is a 6 head frogspawn.

 

[Alfredo De La Fe]

That's a pretty big piece of coral...

-Alfred

 

[wxl14]

Did he get really mad turn green then lift the coral. I 've seen that happen before. from maroon to lime green then the fins get about four times the size. Its called Hulk Maroon syndrome.

 

[VJ&POOPS]

Wingo did mention before to me his crabs were returned to the anemone by his fish...

I have had a large maroon once 4", and it never or I never observed it moving anything.

I know fish that burrow have a tendancy to move or clear their habitat, such as the jawfish (have a video of it...don't know how to upload or where to), sadly the jawfish was eaten *I believe damsels did it...

I have observed my lemon damsel (from Dean) moving pieces of rocks, shells and debris, apparently it burrows too.

 

[digitalreefer]

I saw the rock it moved... it would be like me lifting a VW!

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I have had a large maroon once 4", and it never or I never observed it moving anything.

So sad.:tongue1:

Couple members have seen it too-did not remember who was it-is it danny or is it Will. The GSM was in my holding tank until a member friend forced me to give it up to him.

It's quite amazing how powerful fish can get. A flower horn can easily move a rock that weights over 10 lbs.

It's even more amazing when you start to understand why they do it.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Just yield and put the coral somewhere else!

HAHAHA

I am about to yield to my tomatoe with all the frags I got from Jhale (and I have no frag plugs). Everyday, I have to get my hands wet to put them back to where I want it.