Who Do You Think Is Picking On My Fish?

[Pazzoman]

Hey Everyone,

Looks like my weeks of quarantine originally worked, but result in a fail. My blue face went in the tank healthy however now is dealing with nipped fins and probably stress. In the tank I have a panther grouper, niger trigger, marroon clown, long nose hawkfish, yellow tang and green bird wrasse. Originally the yellow tang bothered him by chasing and tail slapping him but after a week the tang stopped completely. Also the biggest fish in the tank, is the blue face at 5 inches. All the other fish are smaller than him...I have no idea who is attacking him. Im thinking about taking out the trigger, but than again I'm not sure. Probably I will give away or sell the blue face for real cheap and than figure it out before he gets all of the fish sick (150 gallon tank.)

So who do you guys think is the fin nipper?

 

[piranhapat]

I would say trigger. How big is he? They get nasty when they are older. Give it some time and feed them good.

 

[Pazzoman]

trigger I would say is about 4 inches. Feeding them more lately probably will add bits of silversides to there diet of mysid shrimp to help fill them up.

 

[salpet]

i hate to tell you but the maroon clown is probably the one picking at him

 

[albano]

i hate to tell you but the maroon clown is probably the one picking at him

+1... Also would be my guess

 

[Pazzoman]

I thought about it, however he never leaves the anemone unless he is looking for food...but the number one reason why I don't think its him is that once in awhile I find him with bite marks, at one time his tail was really nipped up. I wonder if it the star fish, he ate a whole silver slide really quick just now...but I don't think so.

 

[STHILL]

Panther grouper is the bully...