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So I have had a Midas blenny and a royal gramma together for the past 2 or 3 months and the Midas has become dominant over the gramma. He has now nipped his tail fin twice in those months. While the first nip healed in a matter of a few weeks, it’s still something I was being cautious about and now that there’s been a second nip, I’m confused on what I should do. Should I just let it happen, separate them, or return one of the two fish
 

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i can only speak from experience, but i had the same issue with my midas blenny and a court jester goby… they were both perfectly fine and then later on the blenny started to bully the goby… nipping his fins. i added another fish and the blenny has calmed down/stopped bullying the goby. what’s weird about it is that it was a yellow coris wrasse that i added that subdued the bullying. so far so good and it’s been over a month.


so perhaps adding a new fish MAY help, but i cannot really verify if it will work or not because it only did in my case.
 
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i can only speak from experience, but i had the same issue with my midas blenny and a court jester goby… they were both perfectly fine and then later on the blenny started to bully the goby… nipping his fins. i added another fish and the blenny has calmed down/stopped bullying the goby. what’s weird about it is that it was a yellow coris wrasse that i added that subdued the bullying. so far so good and it’s been over a month.


so perhaps adding a nee fish MAY help, but i cannot really verify if it will work or not because it only did in my case.
Plan to add some more fish soon but good to know.
 

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Plan to add some more fish soon but good to know.
some people do say to add a semi-aggressive fish if you have some fish aggression. but it may either make matters worse or not help at all since that fish may just only defend itself.
 

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