Unrequited love

[Jekerry]

So we got a yellow wrasse. We were worried our yellow tang would harass her, so we did a water change and introduced the wrasse before turning on the lights. The wrasse was QTd and doing great.

Well, instead of harassing Buffy the Nudibrach Slayer, the yellow tang Travis is madly in love. He follows her everywhere and turns on his side obviously begging to be cleaned. Buffy just swims by.

Will Buffy ever relent and clean Travis? Should we worry that Travis has flukes or something that is making him so badly want to be cleaned? Or is this just another sad story of unrequited love?

Jane

 

[nereefpat]

If it's Halichoeres chrysus, they aren't cleaners. Although they may do a little as juveniles.

 

[Jekerry]

It is! Poor Travis. I wonder why he thinks Buffy will clean him. Maybe it is the shape and way a wrasse moves that evokes the behavior?