Has my Coral Beauty gone insane?

[grayne]

Hello all. Over the last few days my Coral Beauty has been acting very strange (I'm beginning to worry). It goes crazy when it sees people. It used to casually swim to the glass to beg for food, but now it acts like it is on crack or something. It spends all day following me and trying to swim through the glass to get closer. It gets fed plenty enough, and I was wondering if there may be something more to this than just a real friendly fish.

 

[slick]

UM this is a family place so I can't answer that here. But seriously I don't know are there any other fish in the tank with him? Maybe he is getting bored or something.

 

[grayne]

Thats what I wonder about. It seemed content enough, but now it seems like it just wants to get out of the tank. The rest of the fish leave it well enough alone (it is twice as big as the next smaller fish). I am just concerned that there is something seriously wrong with it. It doesn't seem normal for a fish to have such a change of personality so rapidly.

 

[surfnturf]

Originally posted by daveatstupid
Should I let him out?
Yeah! take him for a walk, probably just needs some excercise LOL

 

[ryebread]

I wonder if the problem that you are having is reflection. When you walk closer to the tank you remove some of the room light coming in. This may be enhancing the reflections inside the glass and the Coral Beauty is attacking its reflection.........then again, I am probably full of crap.

 

[grayne]

The reflection idea is a very good one. In fact I have noticed that when I turn a light on that is near the aquarium it seems to cause the Coral Beauty to really go nuts (possibly from reflection???). Is this fish that agressive towards its own kind that it would be that interested in a reflection?

 

[ryebread]

Grayne-
Pygmy Angels are very aggresive to other pygmies. I think I might be right on this one..................first for everything.

 

[sterling]

My wrasse use to do the same thing, but at the back of the tank (which has a blue background) where he could see his reflection very easily. I thought he was going to smash his face in eventually. He all of sudden stopped acting strange and is now his normal, obnoxious self.

 

[ilove2ride]

My Wrasse attackes the Rio Powerhead sticker~!