HELP...new fish bullied

Hi,

I have just added a butterfly fish to my tank. My yellow tang and coral beauty have been giving it grief. The tang seems to have settled but the coral beauty is being a bully.

How long does it usually take for thus behaviour to settle?

He's been in there a couple of hours now.

Thanks guys

 

what I had to do in order to get my kole tang (guess same can be done to other fish) to settle and leave everyone else alone was rearranged the rock work a bit. It pretty much resets their areas and for some reason its like nothing ever happened and everyone is happy. Hope this helped!

 

+1 to rearrange. You can tried to feed a little but it will probably be only a temp thing and they'll be right back at it.

 

Try to remove the coral beauty and rearrange the rock work. Then after a bit put him back in. If he continues to be a problem then chose what fish you want more and re home the other.

 

Thanks so much. I'm going to do a rearrange now then observe what happens. I don't want to try catch the coral beauty just yet as it may be impossible

Will let you know how it goes.

 

Do you have a QT/HT you can house the CB in for a bit? If you are rearranging the rock, that is a good time to catch him if you think you may have to go that route.

 

I have done a rock re shuffle and it seems to be going pretty well so far.

Fingers crossed the peace will continue

 

You can also try the old small mirror taped to the side of the tank trick.

 

All good advice above. The only thing I would add was a couple of hours is normal. I don't get concerned unless it has not tapered off at all after a full day. I usually turn the lights off for several hours when I add new fish too. In some cases I'll leave them off all day until the following morning.

 

This forum is a life saver.

They have had a night to relax and sleep it off so I now just need to see how they go today.

Out of interest what is the mirror trick?