Foxface and powder blue

Good luck! I know that is a stressfull situation. Both every beautiful fish!

 

I added a lemon peel a while back and they fought for about 2 days then got along fine. I ended up getting rid of the lemon because he was eating my toadstool. So hopefully the powder will survive this and get along with the ff.

 

Thanks

 

The best advise I can give is shut the lights out, completely rearrange the rock to your best ability and wait til morning and turn it back on. You can also try placing a mirror against the glass, the powder will probably try to beat his own reflection up instead. Worked on a yellow tang i had

 

Well my powder and foxface now swim together. No fighting or anything. The powder did get stung a few times but never bothered him. I read some where online that tangs can handle the sting. So I assume this is true or either he never got hit with the venom one. They act like friends now.

 

Its like the old story bully beats up on kids til the one kid fights back and the bully aint a bully no more.... Glad to hear things are going well. I had a horrible time getting my purple and yellow tang to be friends.

 

My powder blue is also extremely aggressive towards new fish. What i do is place a net in the corner of the tank (net side down ). my pbt won't go near anything man-made that is newly added to the tank for at least a couple of days. The new fish figures out that this is a safe place and hangs out near the net. this gives the new fish a place to run back to when needed since the pbt can be relentless. this allows the pbt to see the fish without being able to get to it. After a couple of days the pbt sees it as an established fish and leaves it alone allowing me to remove the net. so far this has worked for me. however, i have not tried this method with adding another tang. i doubt a new tang would get off that easy. especially since the desjardini would probably jump on it too.

 

I hate PBT