I recently added 3 new fish to a 2 month old system ....the original inhabitants were a lawnmower, a clown tang and a six line wrasse. The lawnmower turned himself into jerky from vaulting out of my tank 8( so I wanted to replace him, and I needed a bit more help with the clean up so I doubled my hermit crabs and snails and picked up a yellow tang and a super cute snowflake clown( my first ornamental fish) . I was a bit worried about the tangs, thinking the clown tang would bully the yellow but decided to go for it anyway, after acclimation and a probably a too short quarantine(2 days)..i put them directly into the tank ...the clown tang took after the lawnmower and is now wearing a big lawnmower bite on both sides of him and has chilled out a little bit ...the tangs seem like they will work out there problems ....the Six line however has decided the snowflake clown is his mortal enemy and is beating the clown into submission anytime he sees him ....causing the clown to seemingly feign death by going motionless on the bottom of he tank for a short period of time. the six line leaves him be when this happens.... I cut the lights off early last night to end the barrage and give the clown a break in hopes things would chill a little. After feeding this morning it started all over again ....with the six line hunting and seemingly attacking the clown usually 3 times in a row before swimming off ...the clown isn't wearing any damage I can see except maybe a nipped dorsal fin... I will be trying to retrieve one of them out of the tank tonight if the war hasn't subsided any when I get home from work. I had no idea six lines could be so vicious. this may just be my noob-ness showing ...but I wasn't expecting the peacefull clown to get much attention from the other fish... is this normal? the clown fish is healthy and eating..... thoughts? comments? I can house one of them in my sump if needed but pulling my pile of rocks to get them will not be fun but id prefer to do that than have the clown die..
