Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse attacking

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Have you had experience with blue streak cleaning wrasse attacking fish? What can I do to make the environment better.
The fish have been in the same tank for about 6 months with no issues.
Ours has been darting towards our Midas able. Y nd now he is afraid to come out. Every time he tries to eat or swim the wrasse darts at him viciously u til he goes back to his hole. The wrasse does not bother any other fish.
 

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Have you had experience with blue streak cleaning wrasse attacking fish? What can I do to make the environment better.
The fish have been in the same tank for about 6 months with no issues.
Ours has been darting towards our Midas able. Y nd now he is afraid to come out. Every time he tries to eat or swim the wrasse darts at him viciously u til he goes back to his hole. The wrasse does not bother any other fish.
How big is the tank?
 
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Have you had experience with blue streak cleaning wrasse attacking fish? What can I do to make the environment better.
The fish have been in the same tank for about 6 months with no issues.
Ours has been darting towards our Midas able. Y nd now he is afraid to come out. Every time he tries to eat or swim the wrasse darts at him viciously u til he goes back to his hole. The wrasse does not bother any other fish.
It’s not known to happen in large tanks like yours but it much more common in smaller tanks (less then 4’ long). Is there enough dart holes for both fish? You may find also moving territory round will help :)
 
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Sometimes they're known to stress other fish especially if not eating enough to then have some yummy extra slime coat to consume. Pretty rude! It's also why they're better with larger fish as those are usually their cleaning targets in the wild vs things like Lysmata shrimp and neon gobies we keep that tend to have cleaning targets of all sizes
 
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