Killer dottyback!

[cyro]

i got a magenta dottyback about 4 cm for 3 months. bu he is very very agressive to the other tipical bodied fishes, he killed 3 chromis, 1 sixline, 2 gobies.
but i could not take of him. what is your suggestion?
he is my pest :evil:

 

[Anonymous]

Is he a Purple or a Fridmanni dottyback ( P.porphyreus and P.fridmanni respectively )? Fridmani are exceptionally tame for a dottyback species while the 'purple' are known terrors.Check some pictures of both species and see which you have.

 

[Len]

I had a splendid pseduo that killed a bunch of fish too. I got him out with an acrylic trap. It took several days for it to get used to it, but finally it got comfortable enough to go into the trap and sneak out food .... until I caught it.

 

[cyro]

i got Pictichromis porphyrea or Pseudochromis porphyreus ?!

this guy:

 

[Anonymous]

I had a purple pseudochromis and it was nasty too.

 

[mark78]

Yah they are vicious little fishes... Just look at thier face, they look pissed!!

Fridmani (sp?) is an awesome fish though, very passive and much better looking, of course you pay for that...

 

[stubbsz]

I have one and he keeps to himself. I have a tang, two skunks, a Chromis and him. Everyone gets along fine... maybe he's happy as there are only 4 fish in a 100g?

The current Pseudochromis is actually a replacement of a fish that died in the heatwave in CA last year that depleted my tank of oxygen before I could buy a generator. He seems to have the exact same attitude as the last one. i.e. wary of movement round the tank but confident enough to come close to me when I feed.


-Adrian

 

[reefman225gal]

well if you dont want to get rid of him he has to have tank mates he cant harass there goes the neighborhood :wink:

 

[cyro]

he is really getting boring. i made a trap, will be footing i m not sure if not i will made a little gaff, but i will get rid of him! :wink: