Aggressive fish you've had to remove...

[triton3d]

Mannn dont tell me that the Purple Pseudo that i bouth the other day is the one eating my yellow cori wrass tail!!!!!!

Mike

 

[sportzfish]

Removed a Falco Hawkfish who was too fast and smart for me to catch. So I used a pocket fisherman (fishing rod disguised as pen) with a very tiny hook and a small piece of mysis. Got him out on the first try with no hook damage to the fish. If I would not have gotten him that time, it probably would have been awhile before he would have taken the bait a second time.

 

[Uncko Macko]

hahahahahahaha.
I don't want to talk about it.

 

[stormrider27]

My yellow wrasse killed another wrasse and eat all three of my peppermint shrimp. I want to add more wrasses and shrimps so he may have to go.

 

[mdntrdr]

Just caught my maroon!

Back to the LFS for credit.

 

[john rochon]

gaimards wrasse, [yellow tail] eats every single snail/sand critter around.
main issue, he flips LARGE rocks with corals on them and whips up a sand storm. still can't catch him.

 

[Nanz]

Red flasher wrasse: killed a rainford goby.
Tiger shrimp (companion shrimp to yellow watchman goby): killed 2 firefish, the yellow watchman, and a scissortail goby.

The shrimp turned on its watchman? Now thats really bad!

 

[cody6766]

I had a tomato clown that picked a small scopas tang to death. She bullied a few other fish and was off to the LFS. I got tired of her biting me in the tank.

I just had to move a citron clown goby and a McCoskers wrasse from my 33g because my clarkii clowns were beating on them. They ignore the YWG, but they didn't like the clown goby or the wrasse. They're now happily living in my biocube.

 

[TheBennyJ]

I had a pair of firefish for a while and they seemed like they were a pair. Then one day one day Denny turned on Alan and a few days later Alan kicked the bucket. I don't know what changed between the two of them, but now we've renamed Denny to Cain

 

[kc350twin]

Neon dottyback ate all my snails.
Coral beauty snacked on my mega buck acans.


Makes me want to set up a FOWLR.

 

[96b.boy]

red reef lobster he has a taste for any and everything .he's now in a lowlr [lobster only with live rock]

 

[bobparker]

Upgraded a month ago from a 29 to a 75gl. three fish made the move. My adult maroon gold band clown and 2 large three striped Damsels. They'd lived in the 29 for 2.5 years together. Things changed when I upgraded.
added a small lemon tang...dead within a week, black sail fin blenny jumped, purple basslet jumped. 4 days ago it hit me hard when I found the CLOWN beaten to hell...dead the next night.
I will be eating Damsel for dinner tomorrow night, after I take apart the rock work I just built...........I just learned the hard way....never ad damsels when upgrading....remove them.

 

[crabbejoe]

I put all my meanies in one 54 gallon tank: 3-stripe damsel, blue devil damsel, yellow damsel, blue velvet damsel, lunar wrasse, and purple pseudochromis. They are all little terrors, but all together they get along quite well, and it's a very active tank!

 

[Ev's Reef]

2nd on the blue damsel, it harassed a firefish of mine to death. Found him being devoured by a cleaner shrimp and of course, he was the first I blamed until i actually thought about it.

 

[gildorph]

I will be removing a large male bluethroat trigger this week. It ate a watchman goby right in front of me. It also has started to fight with a smaller male bluethroat after they have been existing fine for over a year.


Next on my chopping block would be my maroon clown.

 

[mcbaes72]

Stats so far...

Stats so far...

Okay, thought I'd compile a list of everything mentioned so far from aggressive fish (and even inverts), those not yet removed but will be soon, those that were killed from attacks, etc. This is a scary list, especially the species that was mentioned several times already.

Aggressive fish/inverts already removed & # of times mentioned
Sohal
Purple Psuedo (x3) (1 = moved into separate tank)
Blue (Devil) Damsel (x4) (1 = moved into separate tank)
Pinfish
Blue Neon Goby
Coral Beauty (x2)
Tomato Clown (x2)
Damsels (Unspecified)
Royal Gramma
Green Brittle Star (x2)
Niger Trigger (x2)
Lunar Wrasse (x3) (1 = moved into separate tank)
Red Flasher Wrasse
Tiger Shrimp
Wrasse (Unspecified)
Domino Damsel
Six-Line Wrasse (moved to another tank and became lunch)
Arrow Crab
Falco Hawkfish
Maroon Clown
Clarki Clowns (moved/separate tank from Citron Clown Goby and McCoskers Wrasse)
Neon Dottyback
Red Reef Lobster (moved into own LOWLR tank, “lobster” only w/ LR)
3-Stripe Damsel (moved into separate tank)
Yellow Damsel (moved into separate tank)
Blue Velvet Damsel (moved into separate tank)


Aggressive fish not yet removed (but plan to soon)
Neon Dottyback
Flame Angel
Purple Psuedo (mentioned; unsure)
Yellow Wrasse
Gaimards Wrasse, Yellowtail
Firefish (mentioned; unsure)
3-Stripe Damsel (x2)
Blue-Throat Trigger (Male)
Maroon Clown


Fish/Inverts/Corals (deceased)
Watchman Goby (x2)
Firefish (x5)
Triggers (Unspecified) (x4)
Rainford Goby
Yellow Watchman Goby
Scissortail Goby
Pistol Shrimp
Blood Shrimp
Open Brain Coral (x2)
Cleaner Shrimp (x2)
Anthias
Chromis
Puffer
Wrasse (Unspecified)
Peppermint Shrimp (x3)
Scopas Tang
Acans Coral
Lemon Tang
Black Sailfin Blenny
Purple Basslet
Maroon Gold Banded Clown
Misc. Snails


# of people who removed LR to catch fish: 4

# of people who used bait, hooks and/or traps: 3

 

[Krystalklear]

emerald crabs and a purple lobster were culprits for missing fins and and tails - two gobies (neon, yellow watchman) two blennies (scoote and landmower)

Unknown deaths - clown goby and green goby (boring fish imo)

MIA - two baby hippos (3/4") happliy introduced to the tank, had a nice evening watching them...gone also ClownSweetlips.

jumpers - firefish, canary blenny, orange stripe goby (usually stayed on the bottom, must of been spooked)

Recent unknown death - Yellow tang for almost 1yr

 

[LUVSPS]

This Green Wrasse bullied a beautiful Melanarus and McCosker's wrasse to death. Needless to say, he's been banished to my 20 long. Forever. Ha!

 

[aquaph8]

Purple Pseudo. It was about 5 years ago, but he was the meanest fish I've ever had. He ripped apart the firefish in a few hours. It's tail was ripped up so bad that it died the next day. He then turned to my Blue Devil Damsels, so out he went. The Damsels eventually went too, but they were not nearly as aggressive as he was. Beware those Pseudos. Small but do pack a punch.

+1, mine got kicked out cause it was beating up my regal tang. mean little $#!@

 

[TruReef]

Removed my blood thirsty Maroon Clown