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The operation went like this: I tried getting him to move to the front of the aquarium by waving my hand about an inch behind him, but he wasn't budging (actually he just turned around and stared at my hand). Then, I tapped his tail with my finger, to which he moved a tiny bit but was basically still in the same place. Next, I basically shoved him to the front, so he waited till I was done moving him to go around my hand and return to his "spot". I did it once more and this time he stayed in the front, looking around/breathing/flapping his pectoral fins/staying midwater but otherwise not really moving from where I had put him. I grabbed the tweezers, and then tilted him to the side slightly to begin. Skittles still didn't react a whole lot to this with the exception of moving forward and backward a smidge and acting like it was a mild annoyance to him (don't really know how to put this into words). So, I plucked out the grub, and in the meantime he didn't try to swim away or anything while I did this (but it only took about 10 seconds). After that, I took my hands away from him and he righted himself immediately, swam a few inches towards the direction of his "spot", and stopped there. Finally, I squirted some hydrogen peroxide right onto the spot where the grub was with a small medicine syringe to make sure that it wouldn't become infected, and that was that.
Okay, the whole time I was doing this, I was moving my hands slowly and didn't actually "grab" Skittles as much as gently stabilize him, but nonetheless I was wierded out by his general lack of care of being touched and moved around. I thought he would just dart away from my hands the moment I moved too close to him, like a baby Bluegill. On the other hand, I have been hand feeding him frozen bloodworms, live waxworms, and live earthworms (lotsa worms!) for the past five or so days, so he could just be used to it (but he isn't taking any right now, I think I broke his trust). I've also been rearranging the plants and rocks but even when I got close to him he would just look at my hand like "what is this?" and otherwise not do anything. In fact, sometimes he was in the spot where I wanted to put a plant and I'd have to push him aside to get it there, he wouldn't really argue or swim away but would return after I was done.
Yet, I've noticed that adult fish tend to have different attitudes than little fish, such as a hyper baby Oscar compared to a lax adult, so maybe my mental comparison of Skittles to the two inch long Bluegills I babysat is not really fair.
Are you guys' adult sunnies as laid back, or do you think Skittles is sick?
(reflection: I sure am wordy aren't I?)