Mirror Trick? How Long?

[jaredrah777]

Just curious on how long you guys think this practice should take place for… i have a yellow tang who’s a bully but things have seemed to ease alot now that the mirror is in place

 

[KrisReef]

Depends on how vane the Tang is?
I have not used the mirror, my wife would kill me if I touched it.

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[cww81]

I used a mirror for a desjardini sailfin tang when I added my fox face and for a whole week and the tang was relentless in attacking his reflection. For my fish it ended up never working and he had to be returned. I know people who have had it work in a few days, or in my case, a little over a week and it still didn’t work. Good luck!

 

[i cant think]

I have never used a mirror as I have a very layed back species of tang (Ctenochaetus binotatus) that has none of that aggressive behaviour tangs are known for.

 

[Dave1993]

half a day for my powder blue and purple

 

[i cant think]

I have never used a mirror as I have a very layed back species of tang (Ctenochaetus binotatus) that has none of that aggressive behaviour tangs are known for.

I forgot to add about how I have read about it being a 2-3 day time period before aggression is minimal.

 

[mfinn]

I've done it twice. It's been several years since.
I believe it started working in just a few minutes and I think I left it up for 4-5 days.

 

[homer1475]

Currently have a leopard wrasse that chases another leopard. I have left my mirror up for a few hours at a time, nearly every day for a couple weeks. I won't leave it up much longer then a couple hours as all my fish get very agitated, and jumpy.

Does the trick as all my fish want to fight their reflection. My blue eyed kole turns a vibrant orange with black stripes, instead of the dark purple they normally are. It's certainly a color I would probably would have never seen otherwise.

 

[mfinn]

Currently have a leopard wrasse that chases another leopard. I have left my mirror up for a few hours at a time, nearly every day for a couple weeks. I won't leave it up much longer then a couple hours as all my fish get very agitated, and jumpy.

Does the trick as all my fish want to fight their reflection. My blue eyed kole turns a vibrant orange with black stripes, instead of the dark purple they normally are. It's certainly a color I would probably would have never seen otherwise.

I don't think it works with wrasses like it does with tangs.
With wrasses it's probably a male vs. male thing.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Overnight for me

 

[homer1475]

More like a different species type thing. Sorry didn't explain in my original post. And for just chasing, not any actual aggression.

One is a melagris leopard, the other a moyers leopard. By all means they should get along, my PITA melagris just like to chase the moyers. I only did it for a while to let the moyers get used to the tank. One the moyers got used to the tank, the chasing subsided.

 

[dwfain]

Just curious on how long you guys think this practice should take place for… i have a yellow tang who’s a bully but things have seemed to ease alot now that the mirror is in place

My Powder Brown was bullying my Yellow. I put the mirror up and it took about 3 weeks. Interesting part was both the Yellow and the Powder went after the mirror and forgot about each other. Gave them a common enemy I guess.

 

[mfinn]

More like a different species type thing. Sorry didn't explain in my original post. And for just chasing, not any actual aggression.

One is a melagris leopard, the other a moyers leopard. By all means they should get along, my PITA melagris just like to chase the moyers. I only did it for a while to let the moyers get used to the tank. One the moyers got used to the tank, the chasing subsided.

I had a male potters wrasse and a large female ( actually 3 ) meleagris that just never got along. The meleagris was starting to go male and it seemed everybody was fair game. They can get cranky.