My regal tang is a jerk.....

[natas]

No he is not a bully. I know most of you are thinking this. But he is a brat.

I cannot put frags on my frag rack. Why? Well he thinks its fun to pick them up and swim around with them then drop them in hard to reach places. I am dead serious about this. He literally will pick it up by them side (not touching the coral) and swim around for 2-5 seconds and drop it. He also does this with small rocks. If the frag is to heavy for him he will do his best to knock it off the rack.

Once I glue a frag plug to a rock he will test to make sure its in place. If he cannot move it he eventually gives up.

Anyone else have a fish that does weird things? If I catch him doing it I rush over and tap the glass and say NO. I feel like I am dealing with a dog. Other than this odd behavior he is a good fish. He doesn't nip corals and gets along pretty well with the other fish.

 

[lonbrat]

That's pretty funny- fish have such personalties ^^ maybe he doesn't like your decorating skills. I've had an urchin who would distribute my zoas around the tank. He would pull a few off of the mother colony and and Id find them across the tank stuck to a different rock. ^^

 

[nuxx]

Our YB Blue is the devil... enough said...

 

[ca1ore]

Regal/hippo is an idiosyncratic and neurotic fish, particularly as it grows. That and it's ich succeptibility makes it a marginal a choice IMO.

 

[Deinonych]

Hilarious! Well, not for your frags, of course. My Kole loves to pick up Nassarius snails and flip them over when they emerge at feeding time. Weirdo.

 

[brett559]

Yesterday my flame angel picked up a little piece of algae of the rocks swam over to my MP10 and spit it out right inside - chopped it up and got everywhere. I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but it sure looked like it.

I've heard triggers will spit at you if you come too close.

 

[Frankief]

One of my frags went missing off my frag rack and it was driving me nuts, i couldnt even find the plug. Im assuming im having the same issue as you and one of my fish is being a Jerk, considering this morning another went missing and i found it tucked behind a rock in the sand... darn fish lol

 

[sahin]

My blue chromis used to splash water out the tank if I didnt feed them fast enough...they were proper jerks. It seriously used to annoy me. I got rid of them and bought Anthias instead.