Coral Beauty Aggression towards Bullet Goby

[Chortanator]

I introduced the cb and goby around the same time so I thought it would be okay, but they really hate each other. It's been about 5 minutes, should I let them settle things or take out the goby?

 

[Chortanator]

Looks like the bg gave the cb a little bite and he has learned to stay away, i'm watching them carefully but I don't want to lose either of them while I'm not looking

 

[Chortanator]

Has anyone else had experience with this? If they stop immediately going after each other will they eventually leave one another alone?

 

[Andrew22222]

I added a tang and the CB settled down

 

[Chortanator]

I added a tang and the CB settled down

Do you mean it was aggressive until you added the tang? Or it was aggressive towards the tang and eventually left it alone?

 

[Sharkbait19]

Give some time to settle down. The fish are new and are staking out territories.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Beautiful fish but kind of a butthead. They can be territorial and nip at corals. I ended up giving mine to a local petco that had a buyer lined up. I tried in a 36bowfront tank with 4 or 5 other fish.
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I'd give it a cpl days to settle. I don't see much aggression in your videos. Just standing off at each other.
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

No chasing. Which is good. Lol.
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[Chortanator]

Beautiful fish but kind of a butthead. They can be territorial and nip at corals. I ended up giving mine to a local petco that had a buyer lined up. I tried in a 36bowfront tank with 4 or 5 other fish.
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I have mine in a 55 and I think that's still pushing it size-wise. They've stopped biting at each other and the cb swims on its side around the bg so I think they were just establishing dominance in the tank

 

[Chortanator]

No chasing. Which is good. Lol.
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Yeah no chasing, the cb would swim towards the goby, they'd get in a little spat, then they'd both go back to minding their own business

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Ya sounds like it should settle
Nice. 55g! Right on.
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[Andrew22222]

Do you mean it was aggressive until you added the tang? Or it was aggressive towards the tang and eventually left it alone?

The tang put the CB in its place, everyone’s happy now, I also have a dragon wrasse that seems to break up any of aggression in the tank weirdly, the only thing is he try’s to eat my snails lol