Talk:Floater/@comment-43714438-20190903125759

I recently, to my surprise, hatched my first cuddlefish and later brought it outside my base. As I was doing tricks and swimming around it, I saw a floater on a rabbitray which I'd never seen before. I grabbed the floater in order to study/scan it to see if something new came up and then released it. Then they were both gone! The floater attached to the cuddlefish! They started heading towards the surface but in small circles as the cuddlefish could still swim some and the floater couldn't take it all the way up. It was a bit of a tug of war, like a puppy whose leg is locked in a ball and chain, in water, while the ball is buoyant and the puppy can breathe water, kind of.

It was very difficult to get close to them as the cuddlefish would swim and the floater would, well float, which made their movement difficult to track. When I did get them in my sights I was repeatedly offered the 'press x to play' prompt. When I did this the cuddlefish would go into the trick animation while the floater would be to the side on the screen, seemingly 'hanging out', although not attached. When the trick was over they were attached again no matter the trick or how many times I did it. I eventually tried stabbing the floater but I think I hit the cuddlefish because of the small disturbing cry of pain it let out.

So I stopped the stabbing and went all the way to my other base about 500m where I'd left my stasis rifle and came all the way back. I was wondering if I would be able to find them or if they had pulled each other into the nearby underwater volcanoe blast and either killed outright or blasted off in some random direction or if the cuddlefish would simply be killed by the floater somehow. Well they were both in about the same area, flailing around near the surface. I took out my stasis rifle and froze them and approached. As they were no longer moving, I was able to get very close and finally got the prompt that let me grab the floater, put it in my gear and the cuddlefish was free! It seemed no worse for wear and didn't hold the accidental stabbing against me.

I was so relieved to have solved the problem without losing my new friend or having to look for answers online. Although I don't think it would have helped that much because I haven't been able to find any comments related to this conjoining of the two. I eventually released the floater inside my base, directly to a storage locker, so that it wouldn't attached itself to the cuddlefish or anything else. Hopefully, relatiing my experience might prevent this from happening to others  or at least offer some guidance to any that experience this cruel fate in future.