Coral beauty terrorist

[DungSl1nger]

I have a coral beauty angel (2.5-3 inch) that is terrorizing my McCosker's Flasher Wrasse, Chalk bass, and Diamond goby. I have gotten the angel out and is currently in QT.

I feel the angel has determined it is the king of the tank and the new fish are intruders. My current tank is a 55 gallon the plan was to upgrade to at least 185 gallon by may.

Which option would you do?
-Qt for 2 weeks then try to reintroduce
-Find a slightly bigger tank for Qt until I can upgrade
- See if someone will take it (not my favorite option)

Due to having to catch the angel I changed up the rock scape

 

[SPR1968]

My coral beauty in my S6S0 is exactly the same, he hates new comers and harasses them for a few days. Just plain nasty....

 

[DungSl1nger]

My coral beauty in my S6S0 is exactly the same, he hates new comers and harasses them for a few days. Just plain nasty....

It’s a shame, it is such a beautiful fish.

 

[Chubosco]

Bullies are bullies. Its a personality if you ask me.

 

[LeftyReefer]

My coral beauty is the same way. Harasses new fish for a few days but then mellows out towards them. My CB gets along fine with my Carpenter Wrasse. Took about a week though.

 

[DungSl1nger]

My coral beauty is the same way. Harasses new fish for a few days but then mellows out towards them. My CB gets along fine with my Carpenter Wrasse. Took about a week though.

I am going to try to re-introduce her tomorrow. I have all day so if she goes scorched earth I can pull her back out.

 

[LeftyReefer]

You could try putting the coral beauty in an isolation box in your tank for a few days. It lets the fish check each other out for a few days and get used to each other while still being separated. That's what I did when introducing my wrasse to the tank with the coral beauty.

 

[DungSl1nger]

You could try putting the coral beauty in an isolation box in your tank for a few days. It lets the fish check each other out for a few days and get used to each other while still being separated. That's what I did when introducing my wrasse to the tank with the coral beauty.

I’ll see if it can find one

 

[Dbichler]

Typical behavior of any small angel. Unfortunately it’s really their only major downside. Only thing that’s ever calmed mine down is adding something that is an even bigger bully

 

[DungSl1nger]

Interesting. She was good until I put my flasher wrasse in.

 

[Murica]

Taping a mirror to the side of my tank has worked wonders for me, works with about half the fish I’ve ever tried it with. Worth a shot...

 

[DungSl1nger]

Taping a mirror has worked wonders for me, works with about half the fish I’ve ever tried it with. Worth a shot...

She has been in a qt for 3 weeks now and I redid the aqua scape so with her being the “last in” I hope she reverts to her old self.