Well the reason i'm asking, is because I've really been fishless since I started my tank on the 2nd of Jan (cept for the damsel which I had in the tank for about 2-1/2 weeks. I took him out 3-4 weeks ago).
Only other things I have in my tank are a few inverts (snails/hermits), a peppermint shrimp, and a few small frags of coral.
I've been so good at waiting for my stand to finish so I can move my tank, and then finally get fish, which was one of the main reasons of not getting fish yet. I've been dropping by Fin-Omenal for the last month or so, every week or so, and in one of their tanks they've always had this small Green Mandarin, and a wicked small 6line wrasse. I really wanted to get both of them, but waited, until a few days ago, when I dropped by to notice the 6line gone. I didn't want to see the Mandarin go too, so I figured I'm jump the gun and grab the little guy! (I haven't seen one at any other LFS).
Anyhoo, when I first put him in the tank, he just hovered near the bottom, and stopped all together. It took him about 5-10 mins before he started moving, then went right next to my peppermint shrimp who began feeling him out
After a day, I've seen him crusing the rocks in my tank, picking on the pods that my tank is covered with. At the LFS they did feed him frozen mysis which I saw him eat.
I figured the fish is just a bottom dweller, not swimming much but yesterday I got a good laugh. I only have one PH in my tank right now (802), which the main currents are near the top. I found the guy going up in front of the PH, and letting the currents throw him to the other end of the tank, where he would just fight against the current. He's pretty small, but he fought a good fight against the currents. There is a small whirlpool in one corner, which he didn't mind being sucked down to the bottom of the tank, then he would hover his way back up into the currents.
Is this normal with this type of fish? To be playful? I also noticed that he generally only uses his "hover" fins (as I call them) to move around, and rarely his tail, or any of his other fins. Is this normal?
