Aggressive midas blenny? How to deal with it?

[Sarah1990]

Has anyone ever had an aggressive midas blenny? I have a 48g tank with 2 clowns, a watchman goby, a fire fish and a midas blenny who was the last addition.
The fire fish started hiding but I'd never seen any aggression until today when the midas blenny chased and tried to bite both the fire fish and the goby in the space of a few minutes.
I'm thinking maybe the blenny with have to go, as much as I like it, because I imagine anything else that got added would be bullied too.
I didn't think this is normal for a midas blenny, is there anything I can do?

 

[BlennyTime]

What are you feeding? And how often?

 

[Sarah1990]

What are you feeding? And how often?

Vitalis marine pellets twice a day and brine shrimp once a day.
The blenny eats more than any of the others and it's the only time the fire fish can come out and be ignored by the looks of it

 

[najer]

I love my midas and it is not aggressive to anything (it doesn't like my fox face for some reason), in your situation I would remove it.

 

[mann1139]

I agree with removal. The blenny sounds like it might be a weight class too high for your tank.

How big is the blenny btw?

 

[Han]

Yeah they definitely can be bullies. I have one in a 60g and he bullied a firefish to death.

 

[Sarah1990]

I agree with removal. The blenny sounds like it might be a weight class too high for your tank.

How big is the blenny btw?

Around 3 inches maybe just over

 

[Tamberav]

Has anyone ever had an aggressive midas blenny? I have a 48g tank with 2 clowns, a watchman goby, a fire fish and a midas blenny who was the last addition.
The fire fish started hiding but I'd never seen any aggression until today when the midas blenny chased and tried to bite both the fire fish and the goby in the space of a few minutes.
I'm thinking maybe the blenny with have to go, as much as I like it, because I imagine anything else that got added would be bullied too.
I didn't think this is normal for a midas blenny, is there anything I can do?

Every midas blenny (had 3 different ones) I have ever kept in anything from a 40g or smaller has turned aggressive. Live Aquaria lists that they may be aggresive towards other planktivors like firefish and flashers and such. This is actually not unusual behavior for them.