Guardian Angel

[OmarD]

This needs to go into the "Book of Weird Aquarium Events"

When adding my sixline to tank a few months ago, my pack of damsels (2 black striped Humbug Dyclus, 2 blue yellow tail) immediately pounced upon it and began chasing it about tank. Whereupon my Coral Beauty, stepped in and fended them off the poor sixline. It would circle the new fish then chase off any of the damsels trying to approach it. The Coral Beauty did this for day or so until the damsels tired of their game.

Exactly the same scenario happened again a month or so later when I added my Flame Wrasse. The Coral Beauty defended it till the damsels gave up.

I had not added any fish to my tank in 4+ years. --- Normally everybody is very mellow with each other.

I did not tell anyone about this observation, thinking others would think I'm crazier then I already am.

But this is God's truth...saw with my own eyes!

But recent poster over at 3Reef, reported an identical event in his tank. (Guardian Angel?)

Got me wondering is this a characteristic of other Angels?...Could this be the reason someone named them "angels" in the first place way back when?

I wonder what the innate instinct a fish could have for defending another species?

Weird.

Scott

 

[spongebob lover]

that's very kewl dood

 

[Reefergeorge]

I could use one of those in my tank.

 

[trido]

Very interesting behavior. Thanks for posting it.

 

[drummereef]

Great observation. Glad it worked out for you.