jollygreen68
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I have a racoon b/f that has been doing pretty good in my 125g for about 3 weeks now. He eats nori and seaweed selects like a champ(still trying to get him to eat squid, frozen brine, etc, but no luck yet), and looks pretty good. But all of a sudden tonight, after I fed the fish(1 medium naso tang, 1 4-5" juv emperor, a green chromis, and a blue damsel) the b/f started just flipping out so
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that I thought it was having a heartattack or something. I have never see any animal herk and jerk about so wildly, he just kept swimming into the rocks and glass hitting into them all the time and just basically loosing it mentally. After about 2 minutes of this extreme thrashing, he kept coming down slowly until he was back to normal again. But then about an hour or two latter he did it again. Just flipping out and acting very very scared and like he was dying or something. At one point, he actually rammed himself into some rocks and just layed there for about a minute and then started flying around the tank again. None of the other fish seem to care about this crazy behavior and they are perfectly fine, so it is not the water. The only thing I can think of is that my juv emperor bite him and just made him loose it. But there are no visible signs of damage on the b/f so I don't really know if that happened. I have had this tank running for about 8 months now and have come to expect the unexpected, but this just took the cake and it worries me. He is alright right now, but who knows what the heck is going to happen next. If anyone has any info regarding the b/f's strange behavior, I would appreciate it. I have seen a fish get really scared, but nothing like this, it was very scary for me and the fish as well. Maybee b/f's freak out and go crazy when they are scared instead of playing dead and hiding in the rocks like my naso and emperor. Thanks, Jollygreen
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that I thought it was having a heartattack or something. I have never see any animal herk and jerk about so wildly, he just kept swimming into the rocks and glass hitting into them all the time and just basically loosing it mentally. After about 2 minutes of this extreme thrashing, he kept coming down slowly until he was back to normal again. But then about an hour or two latter he did it again. Just flipping out and acting very very scared and like he was dying or something. At one point, he actually rammed himself into some rocks and just layed there for about a minute and then started flying around the tank again. None of the other fish seem to care about this crazy behavior and they are perfectly fine, so it is not the water. The only thing I can think of is that my juv emperor bite him and just made him loose it. But there are no visible signs of damage on the b/f so I don't really know if that happened. I have had this tank running for about 8 months now and have come to expect the unexpected, but this just took the cake and it worries me. He is alright right now, but who knows what the heck is going to happen next. If anyone has any info regarding the b/f's strange behavior, I would appreciate it. I have seen a fish get really scared, but nothing like this, it was very scary for me and the fish as well. Maybee b/f's freak out and go crazy when they are scared instead of playing dead and hiding in the rocks like my naso and emperor. Thanks, Jollygreen
