Introducing fish to DT from QT.....in what order?

[aherre07]

I currently have a few fish in QT and wanted to know what order to introduce them into the DT. The fish in the QT system currently are a bonded pair of flameback angels, a bonded pair of Flame angels, Initial phase Lineatus Wrasse male, Labouti Wrasse, and a female flame wrasse. Here they are acclimating...



I had originally put them all of the fish in together to the tank when I noticed that the flamebacks and flames were not having one another so I separated one of each angel into the acclimation box.



After a few days of no tail swatting at the acclimation box I released the angels back into the tank. The Flame angels got along fine but the flamebacks were still not having one another so I left the smaller one in the tank and put the larger one in the acclimation box. When i finally released the flameback again oddly enough the flamebacks were fine but now the flames were chasing the flamebacks. which brings me to now where i have the flame angels in the tank and the flamebacks in the acclimation box.



My question is should i release the flamebacks into the DT first and let them settle in and then the flame angels after a few days? Or should I leave them like this for a few days and then make sure they will coexist in the QT before intro into the DT??

Sorry i didnt put any pics of the wrasses they are camera shy at the moment but are coexisting just fine!

 

[Humblefish]

I would add all the wrasses first, angel pairs second. However, unless you have a really large system a pair of flamebacks & a pair of flames are unlikely to tolerate one another's existence long-term. The last flameback I had got rehomed from tank to tank, inflicting multiple casualties along the way. One of the meanest little dwarf angels I've ever seen.

 

[aherre07]

the DT is a 250g tank with plenty of LR and caves for them to hide. I have had a pair of flame angels and a single flameback together in the tank before i lost most of my in a tank crash. Have experience with these 2 types of angels together in the past just not with a pair of both.