Finally caught my territorial orchid dottyback!

[Stort]

After 2 weeks of different methods to catch this guy I finally got him! I ended up draining the tank and removing the rock to get it which wasn’t ideal but it was starting to bully my pink streaked wrasse, neon cleaner goby, and even my green banded gobies! I should’ve listened to peoples advice and never gotten it in the first place. Lesson learned, no dottybacks with smaller fish especially in nano tanks! Seems obvious now but I clearly had to learn the hard way. Fortunately none of my other fish were hurt and I’ve decided to replace the dottyback with a much smaller and more peaceful clown goby!

 

[royaleFork]

I personally don't think they belong in tanks under 100 gallons unless it's by itself. They are beautiful but mean.

 

[Cael Gallery]

I personally don't think they belong in tanks under 100 gallons unless it's by itself. They are beautiful but mean.

I agree, dottybacks are amazing fish when kept in large aquariums with larger tougher fish. My bandit dottyback was one of my favourite fish i had in my 200