tang and coral beauty terror

[mmaneen]

so I did a bad thing, I've have this great tang in my 75g tank for a while, and she is the queen of the tank, quite large, however I decided to put a new coral beauty in ....the tnag, she not so likey, and is terroizing the th CB, its only been a few hours, but wondering if I shoul dremove the CB, dont want to wake up with something dead in the morning....anyone have any experience with terriotory ajustment issues?

[dobejazz]

Welcome to TRT
You can try rearranging the rock work to disrupt the Tangs territory

[Geoff]

Welcome to TRT!!!



yea, tangs can be pretty mean when they have had run of the tank for a while. introducing fish at night is one trick for easing new fish into a grumpy old fishes territory. the other is what Kelli was saying. rearranging the tank so that the grumpy fish does not feel like it is home anymore and goes into defensive mode.

G~

[Hong Kongan]

I had the same problem, I used a different albeit unorthodox method. I realized that the tang did not like having a flashlight pointed at it, so whenever the tang went for the angel i shined the light on him. He would then back off and hide for a while...I repeated this till he got the message. He has left the angel alone now and theyve been fine for 6 months. If you want you could try introducing a new fish to take the tangs attention off the angel and give it time to settle. Just my 2 censt..Good luck