Purple Firefish shimmy

steelcity

Reefing newb
Trying to figure out what this guys is doing. He gets low in one spot and with his tail does a shimmy trying to clean/fan an area of sand. Then he/she will take it's head and mouth and run it like a little bulldozer in the sand a few times. Does this mean they are ready for a mate? Kind of what clowns do.

I had a pair of regular reds that I bought paired. For 6 months or so they were fine and then the slightly bigger one turned on the other and beat the hell out of it.

Has anyone ever paired firefish after you've had one for quite some time? If so do you do the same things as with clowns. Buy one either smaller or much larger?
 
I had a pair of purple that got along great for about a year.Then one went CRAZY on the other.I never could figure out why it happened.Maybe they do better in large groups,dunno for sure.

Sorry,never seen firefish shimmy before.
 
Back
Top