Talk:Floater/@comment-43714438-20190903125759

I recently hatched a cuddlefish and later brought it outside. I saw a floater on a rabbitray which I'd never seen before. I grabbed the floater in order to study/scan it and then released it and it attached to the cuddlefish! They started heading towards the surface but the cuddlefish could still swim a bit and never went to all the way up.

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 of screen seemingly hanging out although not attached. When the trick was over they were attached again and I eventually tried stabbing the floater but I think I hit the cuddlefish because of the cry 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 they would still be around or if the cuddlefish would be killed by the floater somehow. Well they were both in about the same spot, flailing around near the surface, I shot them and then 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 and glad to have solved the problem without looking 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, directly to a storage locker so that it wouldn't attached itself to the cuddlefish or anything else.