Fish ID Help - Page 2

Delphinus · #11 11-07-2006, 04:34 PM

Ooops, sorry, missed a point.

In my (very limited) experience with new fish not getting along -- it seems to take WAY longer than a day or two to figure out if they're ever going to get along. The last two fish I bought, it took at least a week before I started to see any signs that the territoriality/aggression would slow down. Both times, at 29 hours I was still certain that I'd still have to remove someone.

However wrasses can be... well .. wrasses. The aggression of my tang towards my CBB abated after a week but it was way longer than that for my sixline towards my potter's angel. Although things are fine now and they get along fine and all nipped fins are totally healed .. I was actually surprised. I thought I was going to have to remove my sixline for sure. I still don't quite trust him 100% but it proved too difficult to remove him without a tank teardown and since he's acting better he can stay.

But leopard wrasses may be a different story, they may be too aggressive. I don't know. Best of luck with it.

Tom R · #12 11-07-2006, 09:23 PM

Hi Jason

I am having the same problem between the new Mimic Tang and the old Chevron Tang. The Chevron is not chasing the Mimic, he is just restricting the Mimic Tangs use of the tank. As long as the Mimic Tang stays behind a pile of rock every thing is fine. As soon as he wants to move freely around the tank the Chevron comes over and he returns to the back of the pile of rocks.

Tom R