Starting to hate my Royal Gramma

[kpoj9]

I‘ve had a royal gramma for about year in my 32g with 2 other fish. He started off fairly peaceful. Recently he has become an jerk. He leaves my clown alone but tries to lip lock with my watchmen goby. I recently added long tail wrasse and he nips and chases him around constantly. Feel like I need to get him out of the tank before he kills the wrasse. I had no idea RG could be so aggressive. Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[ninjamyst]

They are known to be very territorial once established. You can try changing your rockscape...

 

[vtecintegra]

Remove him. You've got a semi-aggressive fish in a tiny volume of water. I'm surprised the clown is tolerating anything else in the tank.

 

[kpoj9]

I’ve never seen clown and RG have any issues. Maybe b/c I started the tank with the clown and added the RG afterwards.

 

[Celestion]

Re-home the Gramma asap , as we know ick is possible on a stressed system.lol

 

[Celestion]

and God help u if it's the velvet

 

[kpoj9]

RG is out of the my 32. Have him in a QT while I decide what do with him. Getting ready to setup a RS XL 200. So maybe he goes there. not sure. He’s a beautiful fish so I hate to give him away. what fish are compatible with a semi aggressive fish?

 

[DrakeEnglish]

The ones I’ve had have been absolute terrors and will never go down that road again. The last one I had progressed from being territorial and opening it’s mouth to anything near its cave to eventually chasing everyone down in the tank and tackling them into rocks. Demonic thing was impossible to catch and only got him out by pulling the entire large rock out of the tank and still had to dig him out with a pair of hemostats. Had him with clowns and a cardinalfish and he went back to the fish store. Tank has been so much better without that fish

 

[jtf74]

Never had a problem with one. Mine has always been peaceful and its quite large for a gramma. You sure you don't have a bicolor pseudochromis instead?

 

[Ajayabb]

Are we sure this is a RG and not a Royal Dottyback. They can be confused sometimes. Dottybacks are notoriously aggressive and territorial

 

[DrakeEnglish]

Both of the demons I had definitely were

 

[Celestion]

Congrats on the 53 ...sad to say mine had to live out 5 years in a 10gallon(two color dottyback)..Either fish, if he's desided to Be a terror u might not get crazy to calm down.

 

[kpoj9]

Are we sure this is a RG and not a Royal Dottyback. They can be confused sometimes. Dottybacks are notoriously aggressive and territorial

yes - 100% sure I have a RG. He’s currently doing great in my QT tank. Still deciding what to do with him.

 

[jtf74]

Guess they all are different. Mines an angel and going on ten years old.

 

[kpoj9]

Guess they all are different. Mines an angel and going on ten years old.

Yes….Reminds me of 6-lines. Some people have great success, others think they are the devil.

 

[Stodge12001]

I tried to add a small mimic tang to my tank, the Royal Gramma went after him nipped him multipe time over 6 hours, removed the tang and put him in my sump whilst i try to catch the RG. He been in the sump now 3 days, and had 0 success catching the RG, i am concerned about my skimmer been off for so long