danielfish
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why all of a sudden my sixline wrasse wants to kill my royal gramma and half blue damsel..cans omeone help me and how to get the sixline out??
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bean 1
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I'm surprised the damsel isn't the one causing the problems but I have heard of sixlines occasionally turning nasty. How long has the gramma and the sixline been together and what order were they introduced? Have you tried rearranging the LR to see if it is a territory issue? Perhaps the sixline wants a specific area of the tank that the gramma has claimed. I have had a brazilian gramma and a sixline together in my 100g for well over one year with no signs of aggression. My gramma lives in a hole in one of the LR's and everone leaves him alone. He is almost 3" while my sixline is about 2". My sixline was one of the first fish introduced and remains one of the smallest and perhaps that is one of the reasons for his peaceful disposition. He also has 200# of LR so when he wants some alone time it isn't hard to find. If you decide to remove him you will most definitely have to remove every piece of LR otherwise you'll be fishing for hours and probably get skunked! Good luck but if you haven't moved your LR around so that they are forced to develop new territories it may be worth a try.
wrassecal
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Can you describe your sixline's behavior?
I agree that re-arranging rock-work can help with territory issues but generally a royal gramma will have a territory and shows its aggression to fish who enter it by taking a stance and opening it's mouth really big. A sixline generally does not have an established territory and spends it's time weaving in and out of the rockwork throughout the tank. Also, a sixline is a cleaner fish. If he is appearing to swim up to the gramma and nip at him, he may be simply cleaning and doing no harm (unless it's stressing the gramma).
I agree that re-arranging rock-work can help with territory issues but generally a royal gramma will have a territory and shows its aggression to fish who enter it by taking a stance and opening it's mouth really big. A sixline generally does not have an established territory and spends it's time weaving in and out of the rockwork throughout the tank. Also, a sixline is a cleaner fish. If he is appearing to swim up to the gramma and nip at him, he may be simply cleaning and doing no harm (unless it's stressing the gramma).
danielfish
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when my gramma goes to feed the sixline out of no where snaps and strikes at him then he goes up in the corner but then i have to put the net in and chase the gramma back in his hole if i dont the sixline will kill him....