Transitioning male leopard wrasse

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In my 90 gallon I have three leopard wrasse.

1 juvenile ornate and 2 blue stars. One of the blue stars is turning male and becoming quite aggressive. It is chasing the other two around and I’ve noticed they sleep in longer and the ornate had a wound on its side that I noticed yesterday. Almost looked like uronema but it is healing already so I think it probably got chased into a rock. Will this aggression eventually even itself out with the new male?
 

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In my 90 gallon I have three leopard wrasse.

1 juvenile ornate and 2 blue stars. One of the blue stars is turning male and becoming quite aggressive. It is chasing the other two around and I’ve noticed they sleep in longer and the ornate had a wound on its side that I noticed yesterday. Almost looked like uronema but it is healing already so I think it probably got chased into a rock. Will this aggression eventually even itself out with the new male?
It should but do you have a photo of your male leopard?
 
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The white area on the ornate is what I was worried about.
 

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It’s odd that it’s a Bipartitus, usually it’s Marisrubri that’s the issue with aggression.

Depending on tank size it can settle down.
 

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Tank size? Also better pictures that are more clear would help if you can remove some blue light. Male leopards can be aggressive towards other leopards. Those pictures I see normal coloring from a transitioning male blue star.
 

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4 ft tank. Yeah he just chased the ornate to the point it jumped and hit the mesh lid
Not much room for male leopard with others. Sometimes it works and sometimes it won’t. Blue stars are more chill the ornate but the more chill ones know to be aggressive before they are the hunters. Most likely it won’t end good but sometimes they will work it out and live together
 
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It’s only gotten worse the male blue star is a complete a hole to the ornate leopard. Doesn’t even look at any other fish but he seems to scour the rocks all day looking for the ornate. Any chance this aggression settles?
 
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Little update. The ornate went into hiding the last week or so. Tried to catch him whenever I could see him but these fish are surprisingly fast and agile. He has reappeared the last two days and aggression is 10% of what is was before. Hopefully this continues
 

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