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Soooo, I may or may not have a situation here.
Upon recommendation, I've gotten a lawnmower blenny together with my rectangle trigger, because he "can handle" a trigger fish. Well, they do ignore each other for the most part. I've seen the humu mock-charge and click towards the blenny a few times, but nothing particularly hostile (and mostly over food, which is to be expected). However, I've just seen the blenny go literally ballistic towards the humu for the second time in two days (which doesn't mean it hasn't happened before, I may have just not seen it). Both times the humu was eyeing the blenny, but not attacking, when the blenny suddenly would actually jump towards/into the trigger. The humu is uninjured (I do think I see a "kiss" marks on one side, though) and doesn't seem to care any further (he also didn't attack back).
Now, I'm actually worried for my trigger. Can the blenny critically hurt the trigger or is it more flashing than anything? How much damage can that little blenny mouth do? Of course I started googling and read all those horror stories about blennies killing other fish ...
Or is just a tiny bit of aggression normal in a predator tank? They're not constantly aggressive towards each other, as I said, they do ignore each other 99% of the time. I'm worried a bout that 1% and whether it potentially could do fatal damage... They are about the same size and have been together for 1.5 weeks now and moved in together. I already moved the blenny's rock away from the humu's area (because OF COURSE he had to move in right next door), but the blenny is all over the tank and while the first time he actually defended his rock, the second time today was from somewhere else
Upon recommendation, I've gotten a lawnmower blenny together with my rectangle trigger, because he "can handle" a trigger fish. Well, they do ignore each other for the most part. I've seen the humu mock-charge and click towards the blenny a few times, but nothing particularly hostile (and mostly over food, which is to be expected). However, I've just seen the blenny go literally ballistic towards the humu for the second time in two days (which doesn't mean it hasn't happened before, I may have just not seen it). Both times the humu was eyeing the blenny, but not attacking, when the blenny suddenly would actually jump towards/into the trigger. The humu is uninjured (I do think I see a "kiss" marks on one side, though) and doesn't seem to care any further (he also didn't attack back).
Now, I'm actually worried for my trigger. Can the blenny critically hurt the trigger or is it more flashing than anything? How much damage can that little blenny mouth do? Of course I started googling and read all those horror stories about blennies killing other fish ...
Or is just a tiny bit of aggression normal in a predator tank? They're not constantly aggressive towards each other, as I said, they do ignore each other 99% of the time. I'm worried a bout that 1% and whether it potentially could do fatal damage... They are about the same size and have been together for 1.5 weeks now and moved in together. I already moved the blenny's rock away from the humu's area (because OF COURSE he had to move in right next door), but the blenny is all over the tank and while the first time he actually defended his rock, the second time today was from somewhere else