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About LinkBacksWell, after sitting on my hands for over 9 weeks, I decided to start getting more fish. I only have a 6-line wrasse, a small school of 6 green chromis, and a yellow tang. Today I got an adult size mandarin fish and a small powder brown tang.
As soon as I got the fish in the water, the yellow tang started harrassing the new tang. Completely understandable and expected. Now, 6 hours later, he is begining to ignore him.
The problem is with the wrasse. He started to beat and peck on the mandarin from the moment it hit the water. It pecks at it on the head and back of the body and chases him around the tank while doing this. He is not just touching. We are talking about hard hitting abuse. What's up with this?? I ahd another mandarin before in this same tank and this wrasse acted as if he didn't even existed. Why is he doing this with the new one now? Any helpful ideas?
Alberto
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- 12-03-2002, 07:30 PM #1Just Moved In
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Evil 6-line wrasse beating my mandarin!
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- 12-03-2002, 08:23 PM #2Contributing Member/Moderator
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My six-line wrassse blinded my mandarin by pecking her eyes out, then he ignored her. You better remove one or both because you will end-up with a dead mandarin. How big is your tank? Both compete for the same food source and the mandarin will loose.
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- 12-03-2002, 08:32 PM #3Governor
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I'd move your 6 line or mandarin into the sump until you can return one of them to the LFS. You could try rearranging the rockwork and placing them both back into the tank at the same time so they have to reestablish their territories. I know this works with some tangs maybe it would work with your situation. HTH
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I had the same experience when I tried a mandarin that was about the same size as the sixline. I tried another a few months later that was twice as big as the sixline without any problems.
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- 12-03-2002, 09:45 PM #5Mayor
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Good luck catching anything...
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Yep, I had the same type of experience with my sixline and a lawnmower blennie.
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