clearwaterblue
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Two days ago I picked up a juvenile coral hogfish and added it to my 46 gallon. My current livestock are a maroon clown (3"), a large starry blenny, a sunrise dottyback, and a coral banded shrimp.
As soon as I put the hogfish in, ALL the fish started chasing and attacking him - even the blenny who has never bothered anything. The shrimp was even reaching out at him with his pinchers as he passed by.
He made it to a rock and hid so I assumed he would be fine by tomorrow.... well I haven't seen him since. At this point I'm pretty sure he's dead.
I'm just curious about this behavior - is it because the hogfish is a more aggressive fish and they are trying to get rid of him while he's small? Is there some incompatibility issue going on? Just curious - hate to see fish die like that and would like to avoid this happening again.
As soon as I put the hogfish in, ALL the fish started chasing and attacking him - even the blenny who has never bothered anything. The shrimp was even reaching out at him with his pinchers as he passed by.
He made it to a rock and hid so I assumed he would be fine by tomorrow.... well I haven't seen him since. At this point I'm pretty sure he's dead.
I'm just curious about this behavior - is it because the hogfish is a more aggressive fish and they are trying to get rid of him while he's small? Is there some incompatibility issue going on? Just curious - hate to see fish die like that and would like to avoid this happening again.