I had no choice but to take my guy back to where I purchased him at. I could not with a clean conscience sell him to someone on Canreef knowing how disruptive and nasty he was. I did have a few PMs and and I made mention that he was not peaceful at all. Of course they did not want to take that risk. The worst thing would be to put him into a home and have him bully and stress the other fish.
Colby and I are good friends and he put my sohal in a giant 10 foot long tank. I could not be happier with him being there, and know he will be just fine. I know Colby will let any interested parties know that this fish does not get along with others aside of puffers, and triggers. I waited for as long as I could hoping he would settle down... when he started bossing and beating on my naso tang it was game over. My naso is the most peaceful and gentle fish, I could not let it happen any longer.
It was a very tough choice to make for me, but my community of fish are so happy, and that is what counts. I have removed a huge rabbitfish, the sohal, a clownfish, and two damsels at this point. It was hard for me to do, but it was for the best. The sohal and rabbitfish more then doubled in size in the time I had them and just did not get along with the other fish in my tank.
I know you know what is best and it took me a very long time to figure out what had to be done. At least you didn't have your sailfin tang almost cut in half (she is okay now), and constant chasing and bullying. Your hippo tang is beautiful and I would be hard pressed to let her go as well. I would imagine if your tusk fish had enough he would defend himself with those choppers. I would have never thought they would be so peaceful. I drool over the one that is at the LFS everytime I go in there...
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Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer
No taking him out will not change the tank much. I exaggerate very much when it comes to aggression because to me fish just looking at each other wrong is bad. I have kind of a zero tolerance thing for aggression.
A few people have been by recently to see the tank and actually laughed at what I call 'aggression'. Its really not that bad and no fish are cautious/stressed because of him including the tusk. I just prefer that the once or twice a day that the Hippo chases the tusk stops. They swim side by side most of the day in fact...
I have not seen him chase the tusk in a few days now.
I refuse to take him to a LFS. I care about this fish and need to know he goes to a good home.
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