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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2005coral beauty and fairy wrasse
I have a 30 gallon reef tank that had no fish in it for a few months. I added a coral beauty last Sunday, and a fairy wrasse last night. The coral beauty has been chasing the fairy wrasse relentlessly all day today. I know they can be aggressive with other angels, but I had not seen this with unrelated species. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior before? Does anyone have these two species living together without problems? Thanks! Dave maybe try rearranging the LR so that there are no established territories and things might settle down Kevin >I have a 30 gallon reef tank that had no fish in it for a few months. > I added a coral beauty last Sunday, and a fairy wrasse last night. The [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Thanks! > Dave | maybe try rearranging the LR so that there are no established territories | and things might settle down Yep. And\or remove the angel to a Qtank for a week or 2, then put him back. I had already rearranged things this morning....the coral beauty was chasing the wrasse while I was doing that! Things seem to have settled down somewhat. The constant chasing has stopped, with just the occassional movement towards the wrasse. At least the wrasse is getting food. I put in some mysis shrimp this afternoon and it got more than the angel. Thanks for the suggestions. Dave > | maybe try rearranging the LR so that there are no established > territories > | and things might settle down > > Yep. And\or remove the angel to a Qtank for a week or 2, then put him > back. My concern for you is you might be jeaded for a case of Ich with the stress on the wrasse. In general, fish do not want a fish of the same genus, species or looks alike which might include shape and stipes. Rember that fish are color blind and in general do not have the same eye sight we have. I have never seen moving rock as helping anything. If it does not settle down where they pass each other with no incident, you need to pull the angel and place in a quarantine. If you do not have a quarantine get one. you simply should not have a salt wayer tank without one. > My concern for you is you might be jeaded for a case of Ich with the stress > on the wrasse. In general, fish do not want a fish of the same genus, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If you do not have a quarantine get one. you simply should not have a salt > wayer tank without one. Many fish have color vision but some colors do not penetrate deeper water - blue is better seen at depth than red or yellow. In fact, many fish don't see red at all, which explains why red is a commom color in some varieties (camouflage). Fish color vision is probably very different from ours. Contrast betweeen the color of the foreground and the background is important for their sight. As of today the coral beauty has lost interest in the wrasse. They have been exploring the same patch of live rock without paying any attention to each other. Dave > My concern for you is you might be jeaded for a case of Ich with the stress > on the wrasse. In general, fish do not want a fish of the same genus, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If you do not have a quarantine get one. you simply should not have a salt > wayer tank without one. |
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