Which fish turned out to be a menace in your tank?

[fluked]

Green Coris Wrasse, no real aggression issues or anything, but it searches the sand bed very thoroughly for food, it will spray sand a foot up the rock work, and flip any coral it can in search of food.

Also lawnmower blenny, it decided to rip apart a deshy/acan and trachy all within days

 

[srad750c]

Purple tang

 

[bbfishy]

Our triggerfish went completely rogue and killed everyone… Lesson roughly learned.

 

[davidcalgary29]

Seconded.

No dottyback can be called peaceful.

I have four orchids (a pair in two tanks) and they haven’t been a problem at all. Perhaps getting captive-bred fish is the key?

 

[Dolphins18]

flameback

 

[sixline]

See my username.

 

[74rus]

Yellow belly damsel , bicolor dottyback ,hated everything can swim
Yellow corris wrasse - really good pest control but killed every snail and hermit
Powder blue tang- too aggressive

 

[blaxsun]

Yellow Belly Damsel, I mean Yellow Belly A**hat.

 

[Bouncingsoul39]

mccoskers flasher wrasse, candy hogfish, melanarus wrasse, talbot damsel, most zebrasoma tangs i’ve had.

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

1. Roland's Damsel that I read over and over is peaceful. It currently has a gramma trapped in a hole. Fishing hook is on the way for him.

2. Longnose Hawk that became aggressive with others. Back to the store with him.

3. Male clown that was obsessed with trying to kill Firefish and Chromis. I'll just say he's no longer terrorizing anything.

Had the same experience with the damsel and clowns!

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

Orchid dottybacks can be nasty little fish

Agreed!

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

Purple Dottyback
Blue Reef Chrome or any Chromis for that matter
Flame Hawkfish
Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse

Been playing with the idea of adding some chromis but heard the horror stories!

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

It depends Had a Passers Angel that was bad, had a Bicolor Angel that was bad. Had one powder blue tang that was bad 2 that were great.

Yea it does depend on the fish, my Achilles is a model citizen for now. My yellow tang is more of a problem than the Achilles

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

Darwin clowns. Mean and nasty to my helping hands

They never appreciate us haha

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

Kole tang. Surprisingly. I have 4 fish now. 2 clowns. A fire hawk and a long nose hawk. No nipping or anything but the flame hawk is sooo territorial. I’m looking for one more fish to add that will subdue him a bit and just be a mother tank mate. Any suggestions?

Had the same issues with a kole tang. If your tank is big enough, maybe an adult tang can help bring some order to the tank.

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

mccoskers flasher wrasse, candy hogfish, melanarus wrasse, talbot damsel, most zebrasoma tangs i’ve had.

Definelty agree on the Melanarus, a buddy of mine had one that would kill any other wrasse that was introduced to the tank.

 

[Dolphins18]

Foxface has always been a model citizen for me. A peacekeeper for the whole tank a gorgeous fish at the same time.

 

[QuarantinedCorals]

Foxface has always been a model citizen for me. A peacekeeper for the whole tank a gorgeous fish at the same time.

Have you ever had any experiences with it nipping at corals??

 

[mindme]

Sailfin tang

Mine is very territorial. It doesn't really chase them around the tank too much, but if another tang gets near his little spot, he'll run them off.

 

[Dolphins18]

Have you ever had any experiences with it nipping at corals??

Nope, from what I've heard, some people have seen them nip at zoas, and in some cases wipe out colonies, this has not been my expereience and I see it very rarely. I love the fish, they help keep the more aggressive ones calm ime. If one of mine in the past or now started nipping I would remove it, they just never have shown any interest.