Help releive the stress

[steveo32]

Well i have a Sohal tang and a newly added Salfin tang in a 180 gal tank. they plus one marron clown are the only fish in the tank. i know there has to be some initial agresstion but the Sohal is beating the crap out of the salfin. His fins a pretty tore up and I am afraind that the Sohal will kill him. Is there anything I can do to help aside from taking hte salfin out ? I don't know whats going to happen when I start stocking other fish and tangs.

 

[cali_reef]

Put in a few more tangs to take some of the beating away from the sailfin :shocked1: .

 

[House of Laughter]

Steve,

The sohal is always going to beat the $h1t out of every tang - they are a very aggressive - best to rid yourself of future hassles and get rid of the sohal if ou can. Or you can wait a day or so, and see it they come to a peaceful place.

Jim

 

[regal]

Use a mirror to distract the sohal.

 

[steveo32]

Cali i would love to add more tangs but the funds are not availible for htat right now lol.

Jim, I could try and get the Sohal out but that was like one of the fish I wanted to keep. The salfin seems better now then yesterday and I have had the lights off for a wile now but that dam sohal keeps going after him. I 'll see if I can get a pic up

 

[masterswimmer]

Put in a few more tangs to take some of the beating away from the sailfin :shocked1: .

I agree.....aggression dispersion

swimmer

 

[Deanos]

Pictures of what? A beat-up sailfin?

Re-aquascape! :idea:

 

[marrone]

Either get rid of the Sohal or get rid of the Sailfin. Even if you add other tangs you're going to have a problem with the Sohal, especially in a 180gal tank. As the Sohal gets larger, and the other tangs too, you're going to have even more problems.

If you're going to keep the Sohal try keep it with out aggressive fish, like Triggers, Groupers, Snappers, Large Angels and such.

 

[jhale]

get rid of the sohal. it's going to outgrow the 180 anyway. then it will really start killing it's tank mates.

 

[steveo32]

Well I might be picking up a blonde naso an inch or two bigger than the Sohal and I'm going to see if that helps. Hopefully it will.

 

[steveo32]

Re-aquascape! :idea:

Dean I tried that and divided the tank in half whih Live rock an the Sohal still managed to find his way throught the back and to the other side.

 

[reefman]

the sohal will always be the dictator. if u'r fine with that, then live with the fact your success in adding tangs and others will be very low. all tricks will help but wont for long.

 

[Bob 1000]

Throw the sohal in the sump... works for me....But only for 2 or 3 days... I did this if one of my angels would get out of line in the beginning...Started this time out practice with sohol and a pbt in my earlier days.....it seems like they can still smell each other, but allows new fish to adjust....If your water quality is real good nofood for the sohal for 2 days...

 

[steveo32]

That may be an option if I can catch him. Give him a time out for not palying well with others. But he won't start again after he's put back in ? Also I would have to continue to do so when I wanted to add a new fish ? We'll see what happens after tomarrow I explained to the wife "But hunnie its not that I want to buy another fish, I have to get one for the other fishes sake"

 

[duke62]

my old yellow tang went after my hippo tang till i put a mirror on side of tank after that it never bothered it again

 

[Awibrandy]

I never tried the mirror trick, but I've done all the others. And they didn't work. Once the original tang saw a new comer that was it. If the new comer is a strong fish, and fights back they would make it. Or crafty as this last yellow tang I got. My PT went after it mercylessly, and would not stop even after I added 3 more tangs. The PT ignored all the new ones, and kept right after the yellow tang. The yellow one found a cave that the PT couldn't get into, and thats where it stayed for a few weeks until it healed. Now they're fine.

Oh, and I got a little clarki that has done even better then the yellow tang. I have a GS maroone that went after the clarki. The clarki dug sand out from under a rock and made herself a little cave. The maroon goes for the clarki, and the clarki runs and gets in her cave. Not one torn fin.:biglaugh:

 

[Bob 1000]

Time out... Works for me...6 angels now in my tank ...Soon to get rid of the 6th though...

 

[steveo32]

Well I got a very nice Blonde naso tang today and so far it pretty good. The Naso stays by the Salfin and kinda of protects him. He's also a little bigger than the Sohal so he's keeping him in check. Hopefully all will be calm soon.