I just added 2 more tropical fish to my aqurium and one of them is getting bullied.?

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i added a male guppy and swordtail platy the guppy is getting bullied by the 2 angel fish so all he has been doing is hiding in the artificial rock what do i do??
i only added him yesterday they havnt touched him for a while now since he has been hiding in the rock but why are they only bullying the guppy and not the platy???
he just came out of the rock now and there chasing him again i have 7 fish in my aqurium already and it aint that big i would say about 30 litres probably even a bit smaller so i dont now weather to add more guppies i dont want it to packed with fish. but they do have a lot of space to move i think i wopuld get away with two or three more gubbys in it ???
 
Angel fish are notorious for bullying smaller and newer fish, I'm afraid, and you will probably find they do it each time you add fish now. Try getting more guppies as they like to shoal and it will take the pressure off the one. However, bear in mind you will probably lose some more fish to their bullying antics. If you add any other fish after the guppies, try to get ones of a slightly bigger size in future, although even this is no guarantee they will escape the attentions of the angelfish.
 
It's called a pecking order any new fish will get messed with because the pecking order was allready established and now you messed up their order. Angelfish are always aggressive putting aggressive fish like a guppy with more agressive fish just starts fights.
 
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