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I have a very recently wild caught black cap who's developed some swim bladder issues but has been eating and otherwise acting semi normal for a recently wild caught deep water reef fish. It's been shoving itself into the corners around the filter intake (not stuck to filter it's got a very large sponge on it) until today when I just discovered it head first in a one way hole barely bigger then the fish, it's clearly still alive not sure if it's actually stuck or not though so I'm leaving it alone in the hope that if it got itself in hopefully it can get out. How long do I wait until trying to do something like cracking off the side of the rock and try to free it? I assume it did this because it didn't have enough little caves to hide in because it's a very freshly setup tank without a finished hardscape but no lighting yet either to stress it out, all advice appreciated, if I lose the wild caught I'm gonna try a captive bred black cap but the price difference is discouraging



