Help with new Angel

[ari5736]

Sohal is beating up Asfur, help

I got a beautiful 4" Asfur from NYAquatics (thanks Michael!). My Sohal tang is not playing nice though. I have a 125g; the sohal is 6+" from tip to tail. I was thinking about either trading the sohal for a smaller sohal tang (if anybody is interested lmk), adding someother fish to avert aggression, or taking the sohal out, putting him in solitary confinement for a few days are re-releasing him.

The other fish I have in the system is 1 4" semilivartus and pair of clowns and school of chromis, and a 6line.

I realize that the sohal and angel fish willl outgrow the system one day and will deal with that when the time arrives, but for the time being can anyone offer any suggestions on how to deal with the bully? Thanks.

 

[marrone]

That tank is to small right now for a 6+" Sohal tang. In time it will kill the Asfur Angel and probably the Semi too. The Sohal is only going to get meaner as time goes on.

 

[ari5736]

how about adding another angel, tang, or something meaner than the Sohal to chill it out and divert attention form asfur?

 

[marrone]

how about adding another angel, tang, or something meaner than the Sohal to chill it out and divert attention form asfur?

Sohal are very aggressive and if you try and put in a larger or more aggressive fish, like a Tang or an Angel, the Sohal is still going to attack it and in the end you're going to lose the fish, either the new fish or the Sohal.

In the end unless the tank is very large you're going to have problems keeping large Sohal with other Tangs, especially as the Sohal gets larger and larger, and they do get very large. In the end the Sohal will actually do better with aggressive fish, like Triggers and Groupers, then with Tangs and Angels.