Stung and Rejected?

[windyridge]

My female has been happily sleeping in my RBTA for about a month now. It took her about 4 months to get to the point where she went into the anemone. A few days ago the male joined her. Occasionally she will wander in and out of the anemone during the day too. Yesterday I happened to be walking into the room and I saw her shoot away from the anemone (not 100% sure she was IN the anemone, just near it) behaving as if she had been stung. She swam vertically up and down and then bounced off the rocks and glass a few times twitching. In awhile she was back to normal. Then last night neither clown slept in the anemone and today she is steering clear of it. If she had enough protective slime on her to sleep in the thing why all of a sudden has this happened? I am not sure she was stung as I don't know what a stung fish does but she behaved like a fish that had been stung. Has anyone had this experience and will she ever go back in? It was the highlight of my tank when she hosted the anemone. :-(

 

[Dragon moray ki]

I would check her of wound she could have scraped herself on the rock happened to mine and she went back in after a month or so

 

[windyridge]

no sign of any wounds that I can see

 

[windyridge]

Anybody out there with another experience similar to mine with no visible injuries on the fish. It's lights out now and she is again not in her anemone bed.

 

[windyridge]

She desperately wants to get back into that anemone. She hovers close by looking at it longingly..even venturing close enough to almost touch...and then thinks better of it and swims away. I suspect she just needs time to overcome her hurt. Lol

 

[Dragon moray ki]

I would just wait and see

 

[windyridge]

Yep I pretty much don't have a choice I was just curious if anyone other than Dragon had a similar experience.

 

[epaulette13]

wierd never thought that could happen unless they were cut or scraped somewhere.

 

[windyridge]

It's possible she got scraped somewhere and I don't see it but I looked pretty carefully.

 

[windyridge]

Update: the clown went back in a few days ago and is now spending even more time serenading the anemone. As a bonus, the male who hasn't shown that much interest but does go in from time to time, is spending more time in it and sleeping in it now, which it didn't do before.:bounce1: