I have a beautiful adult flame angel that a friend gave up because it was going after his clowns.
It's leaving my clown fish alone, but it's going after fish his same size. It's primarily driving my Swallowtale angel nuts. My swallowtale scanning the surface of the tank trying to find a way out. (Poking it's mouth at the surface constantly) and I'd see the flame and swallowtale swim at ludicrous speed across the entire tank. (6ft 125g tank).
well, the flame hasn't damaged the angel yet, but it's probably pretty stressed.
I also added a chevron tang (juvenile) Less than 1" in size and the flame has chewed part of it's tale off. And although seems to be leaving it alone now, I did see it nip at least one more time at it's tail.
Both the angel and the tang swim sideways when the flame comes by them. I see it as a submission dance saying hey I give up, leave me alone. But, the flame will just be a complete *****.
I actually saw the tang hide in a cave and the flame new it was there, it actually swam in circles outside the cave about 10 times before it gave up and swam away.
The flame doesn't touch any corals and eats whatever I feed just fine. But, has some major fish agression issues. Any suggestions short of tearing the tank down to capture the flame?
A friend suggested if I can catch it to throw it in the sump for a week then put it back in the display. I don't know if that would change anything, but stress the flame out more since my sump is pretty small (30g sump).
the flame is about the same size as the bellas.. Around 5".
It's leaving my clown fish alone, but it's going after fish his same size. It's primarily driving my Swallowtale angel nuts. My swallowtale scanning the surface of the tank trying to find a way out. (Poking it's mouth at the surface constantly) and I'd see the flame and swallowtale swim at ludicrous speed across the entire tank. (6ft 125g tank).
well, the flame hasn't damaged the angel yet, but it's probably pretty stressed.
I also added a chevron tang (juvenile) Less than 1" in size and the flame has chewed part of it's tale off. And although seems to be leaving it alone now, I did see it nip at least one more time at it's tail.
Both the angel and the tang swim sideways when the flame comes by them. I see it as a submission dance saying hey I give up, leave me alone. But, the flame will just be a complete *****.
I actually saw the tang hide in a cave and the flame new it was there, it actually swam in circles outside the cave about 10 times before it gave up and swam away.
The flame doesn't touch any corals and eats whatever I feed just fine. But, has some major fish agression issues. Any suggestions short of tearing the tank down to capture the flame?
A friend suggested if I can catch it to throw it in the sump for a week then put it back in the display. I don't know if that would change anything, but stress the flame out more since my sump is pretty small (30g sump).
the flame is about the same size as the bellas.. Around 5".
