Who is the jerk in your tank?

[Cali Reef Life]

Tomini tang for me even though I only have 3 fish due to losing a few fish over the last 4 years due to age and one jumper. He doesn't mess with them to much in a 90 gallon did it in my old tank. Bought 6 new fish in qt will see what happens after they finish their copper treatment. His nickname is Chester the molester because he used to chase my blenny before he passed of old age.

 

[MEPAWN35]

My Scopus Tang absolutely rules my 240 tank and will take it from no one. He makes my purple tang back down and hide which is rather impressive as they are both the same size.

 

[megrim]

Unidentified Signal Blenny. Purchased online as a Lawnmower Blenny but absolutely isn't. Thankfully she mostly stays in her den, but will go anything that wanders too close, including the only traditionally aggressive tank member, an Orchid Dottyback.

 

[tc760]

Right now I have two. My flame angel is the biggest jerk messing with everyone. Second is my adult bangaii cardinal, I added 4 new juvenile bangaiis and the adult is slamming them into the glass. Finally, they decided to stay on opposite sides of the tank so nobody has died yet.

 

[Brucealmighty]

Mine is a coral beauty, shim as I call it because I have no idea if its male or female is by far the most beautiful fish in the tank, but then hides from me, but as soon as I'm a few feet away from the tank will attack my wrasse well attempts to but is too slow so goes after my mini school of chromis who disperse just as fast, as soon as I return to the tank back into the darkness of the caves shim goes and I can't see the colours stoopid fish

 

[Slocke]

Long story short:

Added Hortulanus wrasse
otherwise peaceful melanarus bullied it
removed melanarus
hortulanus killed little longnose and a firefish and some hermits
couldn't catch hortul
re-added melanarus
Hortulanus too scared to come out now
peace restored but still don't know what to do with the hortulanus

 

[MPS]

This Sailfin.

That’s about right. The only thing worse than him is his evil twin, who only shows up when he’s being an extra big butt. ( it’s the mirror that I hang on the end of the tank). He hates his evil twin something fierce.

 

[MPS]

Yep. Then it’s like watching a tennis match. He swims back and forth between the 2 chasing anyone near away. And I have an 8’ tank!

Yes. We call that cardio day in our tank.

 

[DavidinGA]

Powder Blue Tang (of course)

 

[Foomanj]

Answered this before, but no worries.. It is a "Red Saddleback Anemonefish"... Amphiprion ephippium

Yes, I saw your description just after I sent you the message..lol..sorry..thanks for the reply.

 

[Eli57]

ouch. I dared to add 2 small black mollies to the tank and the sixline went nuts in less than 2 seconds. I never seen it so aggressive, was literally feeding on them.

My sixline is crazy as well. He was killing a neon dottyback in my smaller tank so I moved him to another tank. It has now began pushing my lawnmower blenny to the upper left side of the tank and not allowing him to leave. I think I am going to get rid of him this weekend.

 

[ReefRondo]

Powder blue tang. Absolute nightmare for a few days no matter what I add.

 

[entranced]

Blue-Lip bristletooth tang (the king or queen), but the bicolor blenny is the grumpy one.

 

[9975]

We had a bellus angel that my wife named Devil. Before Devil, it was such a peaceful loving tank. She really like hammering on the other bellus that was added at the same time. Funny thing is that they got along great in the QT tank for about 6 weeks.

I gave it a couple days to settle down but I wasn't going to let her kill anything seeing that she had an instant attitude. You should've seen her going at her twin in the mirror through the trap box. I could hear her thump the glass. Took 2 days to actually catch her unfortunately but the tank was instantly relieved so to speak. Been happy days ever since....

Oh and I have 4 small flame Angels that chase each other once in a while. If they get too bad the Bellus puts them in place lol

 

[neilldrever]

This chonk was but we sadly lost him a few weeks ago
He was constantly burrowing, shifting rockwork round and snapping chalice, montipora and SPS.....didn't help being almost 29"

 

[Rawsreef]

Jerk to me has to be my clown who’s bitten me more times than I can count. Or my yellow tang which is always trying my set (coming right up to the glass and flashing me every time he sees me) but I think that might just be his way of begging for food.



the jerk to the other tank mates would be my six line wrasse.

if a new arrival fish looks questionable or a bit nervous my wrasse turns into a shark in bloody water, smells the fear in the new guys and terrorizes them, I’ve lost a couple new guys partially cause of my six line. But confident new arrivals he won’t mess with. It’s like basically up to the wrasse who gets to stay in the tank

 

[AydenLincoln]

My the hermit crabs and blue damsel sometimes but I love her most of the time!!

 

[OSFF]

Blue star leopard wrasse. She is constantly stirring up sand and turning my tank into a snow globe. I’m also still upset with her for deciding to transition into an ugly male.

 

[randalli]

Basically all of my fish are wannabe-jerks. Everyone tries to harass everybody else but nobody minds. The most subtle of the pack is this one though:

He likes to swim up to a group of fish and hang around there for some time while trying to push them out of the area. Nobody minds that really though so he leaves after some time and lays down in his coral again.

 

[Fezbearer]

It’s a old pic, but this dude is my resident jerk. He used to harass everyone in the tank until my coral beauty charged him when he flashed right in front of her.