there still are two of them in there...

[Magnum Man]

after removing the bully from my barb tank, fish are beginning to come out in the open ( unfortunately none of my other barbs ) I had a couple long fin green dragon plecos in there, and I had been seeing one all along, and like all my tanks, there is a lot of hiding places... at this mornings's feeding I saw two of them... both look to be growing and thriving... since they don't spend any time together, I assume they are likely the same sex...

and my spot tail algae eaters, with the bully, I never saw them anymore... they are still there, and growing... I saw 6 or 7 of them last night there may be hope for this tank, sans getting the bully out...

 

[BigDog]

It sounds like getting rid of the bully of the aquarium

All of the aquatic life is coming out of the wood work

They are having peace in their surroundings

 

[GaryE]

You never had a bully. You had a fish way tougher than the others, put in the wrong tank, doing what it would be expected to do if any of us had had a clue about how it acted in a tank.

Being a bully is a whole other kettle of fish, and a whole other set of behaviours. The poor guy is an seriously unwanted fish now, but all he needed was a tank ten times larger and ten times as many same species companions.

This is all well and good, but when you remove a poorly chosen fish from a community, it's wonderful to see how fish change their ways and suddenly become visible. I've made a few similar mistakes, but once you correct them, it can be like getting a new aquarium. It looks like the good news just keeps coming in that tank.