Wanted Copperband butterfly fish

reefwars · #1 03-24-2011, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Treebeard

I had the exact same experience with my yellow tang. He was hassling the CBB so I trapped him, banished him to bad fish corner of the sump for two weeks and let him contemplate his evil ways. But when I put him back in the display it was like he had never left and returned to his old self. Fortunately he has a very short memory and fell for the trap again.

to reduce aggressivness you will have to change around your aquascape , problem is he has territory established and even if you remove the tang he will establish the same teritory unless he is bullied out himself...... changing around the rock work will throw off his memory.

adding pvc for hiding places will hep alot as well, in a fishes mind its out of sight out of mind....cheers guys

whatcaneyedo · #2 03-25-2011, 12:16 AM

Wow your yellow tangs are real jerks. When I introduced my CBB I removed my purple tang for just a week because it was chasing the butterfly. When I put it back in, it didn't show any amount of aggression. However, to this day, the purple tang still picks on my +2' snowflake moray...

intarsiabox · #3 03-25-2011, 02:40 AM

My previous yellow tang was a real jerk too. I had a 75g about 5 years ago with a yellow tang in it and added a CBB to the tank to take care of some aiptasia. My tang stabbed him about a dozen times in 5 minutes and that was by far my shortest lived fish ever.