So I raised a wild caught atlantic blue from about the size of an inch, he was joined with a biota yellow tang who was about an inch and half. Basically I was growing them out to join some other fish from a smaller tank to all eventually be placed in a larger tank at the same time. They both grew fairly fast, but the Atlantic blue grew quicker and eventually over took the yellow. Anyway, I'd noticed the yellow was starting to get bullied during feeding, and eventually stopped eating. The Atlantic became very spastic around this time, super healthy and aware, so I decided not to hold off any longer and upgraded my tank.
Upon adding my fish to the new tank, having used 120lbs of Marco rock that I had been cooking for 9 months, clowns went in, gobies, wrasses, and then my tangs. I added 4 tangs in total, yellow, sail, purple, and the Atlantic blue which was the largest, but I would say all are still fairly small, so between 3 and 4 inches roughly.
The Atlantic remained spastic, not really showing dominance per say, but more swimming around frantically and claiming his spot in the scape. He would bother every fish in the tank, like just super hyper, while all the other fish are very calm and swim together peacefully.
I had to eventuality remove him, almost lost a clown and my yellow was showing signs of illness, I presume bacterial issues from stress. It's been a week now, the tank stock fish have healed back up after a few days looking really bad, and of course after I treated the water mildly, and dipped the clown when he was kicking the bucket at the top of the water column.
So my question is how I should go about dealing with this atlantic blue? He's in a hold tank, my previous 50 gallon, he's super healthy and has tons of personality. My initial thoughts are to maybe try adding him again with a larger tang that can give him a pop when needed lol
And with that all said, and to be completely honestly, I've watched the remaining tangs, all get along, same specie, very mellow and peaceful as they go about their buisness. Like, they're healthy, but when I compare their movement and just energy, it's unmatched to this atlantic blue, meaning he just seems to be so much healthier its almost hard to explain what I mean here. Like is this normal?
Upon adding my fish to the new tank, having used 120lbs of Marco rock that I had been cooking for 9 months, clowns went in, gobies, wrasses, and then my tangs. I added 4 tangs in total, yellow, sail, purple, and the Atlantic blue which was the largest, but I would say all are still fairly small, so between 3 and 4 inches roughly.
The Atlantic remained spastic, not really showing dominance per say, but more swimming around frantically and claiming his spot in the scape. He would bother every fish in the tank, like just super hyper, while all the other fish are very calm and swim together peacefully.
I had to eventuality remove him, almost lost a clown and my yellow was showing signs of illness, I presume bacterial issues from stress. It's been a week now, the tank stock fish have healed back up after a few days looking really bad, and of course after I treated the water mildly, and dipped the clown when he was kicking the bucket at the top of the water column.
So my question is how I should go about dealing with this atlantic blue? He's in a hold tank, my previous 50 gallon, he's super healthy and has tons of personality. My initial thoughts are to maybe try adding him again with a larger tang that can give him a pop when needed lol
And with that all said, and to be completely honestly, I've watched the remaining tangs, all get along, same specie, very mellow and peaceful as they go about their buisness. Like, they're healthy, but when I compare their movement and just energy, it's unmatched to this atlantic blue, meaning he just seems to be so much healthier its almost hard to explain what I mean here. Like is this normal?