Do you have a Royal Dottyback?

[marineang]

Being an aggressive fish, have you ever had them amongst any community peaceful fish and it worked out okay?

 

[n8ball2013]

not a royal. we had a neon and now mcculloghi. the neon was very aggressive and territorial. he was also our first fish. he killed multiple fish and shrimp. the mcculloghi is very docile and spends most of his time darting in and out of the rocks and seems to have a better personality. he was added last but i do not expect him to cause issues if we were to add any other fish . our clowns are more aggressive than him .
My advice is to add it last. That way it cant really establish territory and dominance

 

[nina&noah]

Had....past tense. I went and traded him last week. I have 3 chromis, a blue hippo tang, yellow wrasse, and a percula clown. The royal dottyback was a huge bully and was constantly chasing the other fish. The blue hippo rarely came out until I got rid of this fish. I couldn't add another fish until I evicted him, so he got the boot.
I traded him for a royal gramma who is just as pretty, but plays nicely.

 

[marineang]

Thanks for answering. I asked because I had an interesting situation. I also have a Gramma who of course if very docile and wanted another for one of my other tanks. My LFS, I had been there a couple times last week and saw one and couldn't bring him home right away because my qt already has someone in it right now. I paid for him and they put him on hold for me. I was in the other day and told them I'd be by yesterday and they had him one a tank with info about him being sold etc. I was tied up a friend ran down to pick him up for me but when I got him home, he's not the fish I had previously seen, it was clearly the dottyback and knowing they are aggressive, I was just curious. The LFS regocnized the error and gave me a gramma also but I haven't picked him up yet. No need to return the dottyback because I have an open tank so I can start an aggressive one but was just curious your thoughts. Thank again