Ok, it seems over night the yellow tang in the 90 bow front went insane.
The tang came with the tank, and had taken quite the beating from a former tank mate that the previous owner had just gotten rid of before selling me the tank. The "war damage" is still evident. However, he/she was healing nicely, and starting to show some fin regrowth, and eating heartily. Generally, both tangs come racing to the front of the glass and dance back and forth when they see me pick up a food container or the turkey baster.
Anyway, this afternoon I was watching the tank and noticed that the yellow tang is now hanging out in the bottom left front corner of the tank next to the clove polyps I relocated there to recover (maroon clown in the other tank decided to try and host it, another story entirely). At any rate, he/she seems to be "guarding" that corner, chasing anyone that comes near it away. He/she twitches, and stays close to the sand.
I put some food in to see what would happen, and he/she came racing across the tank and ate viciously like he/she always does, but when the food was gone, POOF! Right back to the corner.
I'm including a video of the behavior. Anyone ever see anything like this before? (BTW, the sideways floating thing was an attempt to get the cleaner goby to come out of the hole in that rock to clean, both tangs do that regularly, and the goby generally obliges, unless something more tasty is floating around his rock hole, I've been able to witness both tangs getting cleaned by the goby a few times)
The tang came with the tank, and had taken quite the beating from a former tank mate that the previous owner had just gotten rid of before selling me the tank. The "war damage" is still evident. However, he/she was healing nicely, and starting to show some fin regrowth, and eating heartily. Generally, both tangs come racing to the front of the glass and dance back and forth when they see me pick up a food container or the turkey baster.
Anyway, this afternoon I was watching the tank and noticed that the yellow tang is now hanging out in the bottom left front corner of the tank next to the clove polyps I relocated there to recover (maroon clown in the other tank decided to try and host it, another story entirely). At any rate, he/she seems to be "guarding" that corner, chasing anyone that comes near it away. He/she twitches, and stays close to the sand.
I put some food in to see what would happen, and he/she came racing across the tank and ate viciously like he/she always does, but when the food was gone, POOF! Right back to the corner.
I'm including a video of the behavior. Anyone ever see anything like this before? (BTW, the sideways floating thing was an attempt to get the cleaner goby to come out of the hole in that rock to clean, both tangs do that regularly, and the goby generally obliges, unless something more tasty is floating around his rock hole, I've been able to witness both tangs getting cleaned by the goby a few times)
