[ry77]

SO i have a ten gallon nano with a royal dottyback, green spotted puffer, and bluefin damsel as far as fish go. My dottyback has become somewhat of a bully he was origionally fine just getting in an occasional skirmish with another fish but not often and it was never a big deal. Lately he has been bullying the other fish and I think has about stopped my puffer from eating alot lately when I feed. I dont really want to get rid of him thought, but i dont want him messing with the other fish, any ideas as to what I can do?

Thanks for any help,
Ryan

[jvharding]

You could rearrange the furniture. Maybe he has become territorial to a location or rock in the tank try moving things around this helps sometimes. do you have a picture of the tank can we see it? Maybe you need more places to hide for everyone to find their place to call home.

[sarha]

a ten gallon tank is too small for that dottyback which happens to be one of the most agressive dottys there is nothing will change his attitude and it will keep getting worse untill it has killed everything in the tank.

[ry77]

yea, I've tried the moving stuff around.. guy at the LFS said he would be fine, found out later that they get agressive with other fish. I reasearch everything on my own now.maybe I can manage to put together another tank just for him

[sarha]

i had a cherry dottyback it was an absolute pain in the butt, gorgous though, i evenually took him back to where i bought him

[ry77]

I thought about doing that myself, my conflict is that it's so good looking and i've gotten a little attached even though he's such a punk.

[sarha]

dottybacks are cool fish with such aditude sometimes i wish i would have gotten him a tank just for him but couldn't afford it at the time so it was ttake him back or all the others at the time if i remember right he killed a fish or two and a shrimp which seeled his fait

[ry77]

I read that they eat shrimp as part of there diet but the fish is going to far... he killed one of mine the same day I got him... it was bad.