When one of the pair of fire fish I had died, I asked my LFS about it. They said I could bring my one remaining fish in and they would give me an established pair (only having to pay for one). See if you can do that.
Too late for that. Wife has already named it. Once it's named, it becomes part of the family.
Mine is a little scaredy fish. When it was just her and the clowns after a few weeks she began swimming around the tank a little. But if anything happened, she would fly back into the hole she dug in the sand under the rock. Now that the Tang is in the tank swimming around, she isn't out much anymore.
He has never bullied her but every time he gets near her she darts back under the rock.
Too late for that. Wife has already named it. Once it's named, it becomes part of the family. I could put it in my frag tank, where my CB Shrimp got banished to. Wife won't let me get rid of that either. I wonder if she'd feel differently about the shrimp if she saw him trying to ambush "Nightmare" the firefish. :hmm2:
Would she really notice? Just tell her you got a new one, when you really got two.
What works in the ocean can often be different than a small glass box. They don't live in schools, but rather loose aggregations on the reef. They need their space and private bolt holes, something that just doesn't happen in the average tank.