Coral beauty help

[Maquatics639]

I added a coral beauty to my 28g nano and everything was alright with my pair of pretty aggressive clowns and the angle. But then I came back a few hours later to discover the poor angel was a little ripped up having out at the top corner of the tank. As a result, I bagged my aggressive female clown to hang on for the night. Should I let the clown back out and risk it to see what happens or give her away.

 

[Jerry W]

What species of clown? A 28 is pretty tight for an angel, although I have a multi color in my 37 and it does fine. If the angel was being bullied by the clowns since it was a new arrival, it is reasonable to expect this behavior to subside in time. You don't want to see the angel take a constant beating however as the stress will kill it. Watch and see how they do. If it doesn't stop, decide who goes. You could also move some of the rock around to throw off pre-established territories. Clowns can be nasty fish. I asked about the species as some are much worse than others.

 

[pktech]

for me it would depend on what you like best the clowns or the angel, but a 28gal. is tight & the clowns are established. I'd give the coral beauty away before you find it dead, personally. Wouldn't add anything else

 

[Maquatics639]

Yea it's a very small tank, but anyways I have two false pers, randalls goby, 35lbs Fiji NLT too much. The problem here is my lfs gives me one day refund , and since I'm a kid I dont have uch money lol. I think I should just get rid of the female, I don't want these fish ruling everything. Poor male is freaking out it's animal Cruelty to split them up

 

[MrTuskfish]

for me it would depend on what you like best the clowns or the angel, but a 28gal. is tight & the clowns are established. I'd give the coral beauty away before you find it dead, personally. Wouldn't add anything else

Yes. When clowns form a bonded pair, they become extremely territorial. This is true for all clown species, the bigger ones just need more territory. Introducing the clowns last often helps, but I think your tank is still too small.

 

[kv2wr1]

I had the same fish you have in a 40b and still had aggression problems. It wasn't until I moved them to a 75g did they all get a long. The angel always started the fights and the clowns always ended them.