Adding new Bangaii to existing one

[Myka]

Anyone had success with this??

As some of you may know or remember, I had a breeding pair of Bangaii until my Bubble coral ate the male leaving me with just the female. She's been on her own for 3 months or so. Well, I bought what appears to be a (barely) mature captive bred male on Tuesday. He is much smaller than her. While he was acclimating the female could see him, and was VERY interested in him. I wasn't sure if this was good interest or bad interest, but assumed probably bad!! By the time the acclimation was over she didn't seem so interested anymore, so I figured maybe she will be alright with him, so I let him go in the tank.

Bad move!! She proceeded to chase him around the tank for the next hour at which point he jammed himself in some live rock to get away from her. So I scopped him out and put him into one of those floating containers designed for guppy fry. It's pretty small, but I put a bit of rubble and some chaeto in there to try to make him feel at home. So he's been in there ever since.

The female is still harassing him, flaring at him, trying to bully him through the plastic. So he's all stressed out, not sticking up for himself at all, and basically looking a bit listless. He hasn't eaten yet either. He's supposed to be keen on PE Mysis, but I think he's too stressed to eat.

So...I have a 10 gallon tank sitting empty that I could slap together a little space for him. I'm thinking if I get him eating in there, and comfortable then I can put some egg crate to divide it, and add the female to the other side. If I have no other ideas by this evening, I will set up the 10 gallon for him.

But before I do that, anyone have any other ideas that might work better?