Who's your bully?

I have a royal gramma that flares up against my pair of perculas... Mean lil bastard but holding on to him until I make some changes. Have a maroon/gold that will put it in its place one day.....
 
6 line wrasse. He tried to bully my achellis and ultimately got beat up to where he had no fins and floating on his side. I scooped him into my frag tank, two weeks later he's bullying a yellow tang. Weirdo
 
My desjardini, tries to slice my finger off everytime I reach in! But I must say the one surprise is my flame angel has NEVER bullied anyone. I must be very fortunate to have a docile flame angel as I have heard many horror stories of them being the devil.
 
starckes damsel, but only defends a relatively small area of a 180. Much more subdued after being whacked around by a naso tang who finally had enough
 
I only have three fish in my 180 due to my bully.....who is about to go.

Have a Hawaiian Naso and a Yellow tang but the bully is my pink tail trigger and him and the yellow tang do not get along at all...All fish are 6 to 7" long.
 
Mine is a large Dusky Wrasse. Not a bully really; more the policeman. Though I think he may have been responsible for 'torpedoing' my Desjardini Sailfin Tang and killing it; so maybe bully ....
 
Rock Beauty angel. He's been the boss about 4 years now. OK with current tank mates but anything new that goes in gets told quick who the boss is. Recently tried a copperband butterfly and had to remove it after a day. It's my favorite fish in the tank but it's still an idiot.
 
Just this week my kole tang decided to take out my sailfin blenny. They have shared the tank for about a year and a half.
 
The bullies in my tank are the two skunk cleaner shrimp - during feeding time they dart in to grab what they can and even chase the fish away.
On fish I have no bullies - all are kept in pairs and are way too busy with their partners to care about the other fish.
 
I have two 220 gallon tanks.

One tank as a Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, pair of clowns, Flame Angel, LM Blenny, some sort of white and yellow wrass (forget name...) and maybe 1 or 2 more small fish. No real bully per se, but the boss is the Purple.

The other tank has a Conspic, some sort of small flasher wrass (not sure on type as it was sent to me by mistake), Female Bellus, small Tomini, Splendid Dottyback and a Flame Hawk. The bully has to be the small Flasher wrass, but only against other wrasses. He is very small, so I might try adding 2 other larger wrasses at some point, like a Scott's and Labouti, maybe a Flame, Exquisite or Lineatus.
 
My Blue Hippo Tang is a jerk. Constantly harasses everyone in the tank. He does't do any damage but he likes to try and intimidate other fish. Especially new additions. It usually takes a couple days before he leaves them alone.
 
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