So, I've been trying to catch an extremely aggressive and rather large blue damsel for nearly a year. This fish would vigorously attack ANYTHING that I tried to add to the tank, and it was a fight to the death no matter how long or short the fight. He. Never. Lost.
Fortunately, I was miraculously successful in catching him today and he now resides in solitary confinement, in my sump. In celebration of my victory I went to my LFS and bought small powder blue tang that I e been eyeing for a couple of weeks. This fish is stunning, is a voracious eater, and is overall incredibly healthy.
After acclimation the PBT immediately took over the tank. He is far more boisterous than my little devil damsel ever was. I have a 6+" yellow tang, a 5" scopas tang, and an 8" naso tang... all of which, this little 3" PBT took to immediately pushing around. He doesn't seem to be (able) doing any harm and my established fish don't necessarily seem bothered by him, but I have noticed that they are definitely keeping away from the PBT, deliberately.
In all of my years in the hobby I have never seen a fish with so much confidence/arrogance in such a short period of time after being introduced to the tank. Will he chill out, or is he certain to be a murderer as he grows and can better compete physically with my other tangs?
This is in a 125g tank with a good amount of swimming room and ample places to hide. Ironically, this fish doesn't even seem to notice any of the other fish in the tank k that are the same size or smaller than him. Dude just wants to go after the big guys.
Fortunately, I was miraculously successful in catching him today and he now resides in solitary confinement, in my sump. In celebration of my victory I went to my LFS and bought small powder blue tang that I e been eyeing for a couple of weeks. This fish is stunning, is a voracious eater, and is overall incredibly healthy.
After acclimation the PBT immediately took over the tank. He is far more boisterous than my little devil damsel ever was. I have a 6+" yellow tang, a 5" scopas tang, and an 8" naso tang... all of which, this little 3" PBT took to immediately pushing around. He doesn't seem to be (able) doing any harm and my established fish don't necessarily seem bothered by him, but I have noticed that they are definitely keeping away from the PBT, deliberately.
In all of my years in the hobby I have never seen a fish with so much confidence/arrogance in such a short period of time after being introduced to the tank. Will he chill out, or is he certain to be a murderer as he grows and can better compete physically with my other tangs?
This is in a 125g tank with a good amount of swimming room and ample places to hide. Ironically, this fish doesn't even seem to notice any of the other fish in the tank k that are the same size or smaller than him. Dude just wants to go after the big guys.