Fairy Wrasse bullying same size Lunare Wrasse

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I had a velvet outbreak in my main 220 and had to take it fallow. The fallow period is over and I moved the fish that had been in it before back and other fish that I had in QT that had been in a 40b that I wanted to move to the 220. In the 220 before I had a bonded pair of Lunare Wrasse, one adult male and one juvenal. I also have a terminal phase purple scale fairy wrasse from the 40b who is about the same size as my older Lunare. I was concerned that the lunare would bully the fairy, but it seems to be the other way around. Also have dusky halichoerus wrasse the lunare and fairy ignore.

Guess I am just a bit surprised by a fairy bullying a thalassoma. The lunare will chase the other in circles then when the lunare turns around they attack each others face.
 

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I had a velvet outbreak in my main 220 and had to take it fallow. The fallow period is over and I moved the fish that had been in it before back and other fish that I had in QT that had been in a 40b that I wanted to move to the 220. In the 220 before I had a bonded pair of Lunare Wrasse, one adult male and one juvenal. I also have a terminal phase purple scale fairy wrasse from the 40b who is about the same size as my older Lunare. I was concerned that the lunare would bully the fairy, but it seems to be the other way around. Also have dusky halichoerus wrasse the lunare and fairy ignore.

Guess I am just a bit surprised by a fairy bullying a thalassoma. The lunare will chase the other in circles then when the lunare turns around they attack each others face.
You need to separate
 
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No I don't. They worked out their **** in the first night. By day two they were ignoring each other.
 
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In my last paragraph I mixed it up it was the fairy chasing the lunare not the other way around. But regardless it was worked out by morning. They have ignored each other sense.
 

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