Sudden fish possessiveness

StephNewman

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My Blue powder tang has suddenly become aggressive toward my trigger. They have been in this tank for about 4 months or so and were living together in a tank before I got them. Both were happily swimming out i the open most this time until just this past week the blue tang is not letting the trigger come out from behind the rocks. Anytime it trys to come out into the front of the tank to swim like it always had the tang chases it back under the rockwork, What is the most logical explanation for this?
 
Move stuff around?

Move stuff around?

Not sure if it will work but when my damsels used to get nasty, I would move the rocks around and give them something else to think about.

Just my $.02

Faz
 
Lots of questions for ya and no replies...I guess you got it all worked out??
 
sorry, I am pregnant and spend a lot of time sleeping when at home so don't get to check this as often as I would like. I don't know how old they are but both are the same size at about 5" long. They are in a 180 gallon tank. I bought them from someone off reef central about 4 months ago or so where they were living in a 120 gallon tank before I got them so they are not strangers to each other. They have been fine until just recently, i have not changed the rock work around recently. Maybe the tang was just having a bad couple of days or soemthign because it doesn't seem to be bothering the trigger as much anymore, it is now letting the trigger back at if it swims at the top half the tank and the tng swims at the bottom half, so for now I guess they are okay with each other again. It still goes after it every once in awhile but then swims away quickly and isn't makign it stay behind the rocks like it was. I haven't been sticking my hands in the tank as much as I use to be just because I haven't been adding things lately or needing to rearrange things so maybe it just has other things besides me to worry about like some of you were saying so has decided to find something else to do but I think they are okay.
 
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