Why Is My Angel Doing This Weird Thing To My New Tang?

[philgmiami]

I JUST ADDED A YELLW TANG (MY LAST FISH) I NOTICED MY EMP ANGEL KEEPS BACKING UP INTO THE TANG.IS THIS SOME KINDA BONDING?. THEY ARE NOT NIPPING AT EACHOTHER :thinking: I HOPE THIS DONT STRESS OUT MY TANG.IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE THE ANGEL IS PUSHING HIM WITH HIS BACK FIN :notsure:

 

[mperez]

I have also seen this on some damsels. No need to worry, i think is more of a territorial thing. How long has this been going on? When i added coral beutty to my tank i noticed my blue velvet damsel backing in to him but this stopped after a day or so. He also did this to my maroon clown fish. But now all is well

 

[jerthunter]

That kind or reminds me of what my 3-striped Damsel tried and every fish I added after him. It definately seems like a territorial thing to me. After a few days of this all the other fish would pretty much advoid the damsel at all cost and they were left alone. Maybe if you give them time they will work out their differences, but on the other hand you may not want to risk they fighting each other.
Anyone know for show if this behavior is territorial or something else?

 

[carshark]

Ive seen it before with a 3 stripe i had , when i added a 4 in. yellow tang, and the damsel would get up right next to him and shake backwards into his face...the tang would just ignore him...

 

[exile415]

Phil are all these fish .. niger,s&s,emp angel all in the 55 gallon ?

 

[mr.p]

Don't worry about the backing into thing my damsel did that to all my new fish. Like someone said in a previous post it's a territorial thing and I also think it has something to do with seeing if the fish is a predator or not, trying to establish some sort of is this new guy okay or not? when I put my foxface in my tank my coral beauty would constantly brush herself against the foxface.

 

[hot883]

You can try changing a couple of pieces of LR around. That throws every body off and then there is no more "territorial" behavior.