Help with agressive regal tang.

[loweryphil]

I have a 6 foot tank stocked with 3 clowns, picasso trigger regal tang and a regal angel.

Some days the blue tang is a little pain, chasing the regal angel when there paths cross or it sees it near the rock work. This happens maybe once every ten minutes and the encounters are only brief.

Is there anything that can be done to calm it down?

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Add a yellow or a purple tang. That will take the aggression off the angel. Just make sure the new fish is eating well and qt’d. All my regal tangs have been model citizens, but always with a yellow or purple in the tank with them.

 

[redfishbluefish]

You can try hanging a mirror on the tank. He'll see himself and think another of his kind is in the tank and now focus on the mirror. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I once had an agressive yellow tang and tried the mirror trick. The tank disregarded, but my long nose yellow butterfly would swim by and go into dorsal spikes out mode.

 

[loweryphil]

Add a yellow or a purple tang. That will take the aggression off the angel. Just make sure the new fish is eating well and qt’d. All my regal tangs have been model citizens, but always with a yellow or purple in the tank with them.

Would a fox face or sailfin tang work? Purple and yellows are hard to get hold of here.