My fish is eating my coral!
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Brymac1
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You'll have to either live with it nipping at certain corals or rehome the angel.
RedReefer
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Take him out.
I had to remove my pygmy angelfish for the same reason.
Also had to remove a foxface for the same reason.
Also had to remove a foxface for the same reason.
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Brymac1
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Some prefer certain corals. Dwarf angels are especially risky with LPS corals. If you decide to keep the fish, you'll be limited on corals you can keep.
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at11ok
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I do want to try to keep it I only recently starting putting nori in 2 days ago but they don’t seem to be nipping at it yet. Should I move it maybe? Alsoy Kenya tree as we all know it makes several frags of its self at least once every 2 weeks which I tie down to a small rock I now have 5 frags of it. Do you think the angelfish might be able to control its growth and spread? Or will it just end up eating the whole thing?
Taipan88
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Bi Colours are not known as Reef safe, and are to be treated with caution in a Mixed Reef tank.
While this Rule is never always true, its a risk some take that pays off with a well behaved Bi colour, others bust out.
Others can be fine, and then one day just decide to have a nip.
I had a Anemone Crab go rogue, was a perfect resident for months.. then one night decided to go nuts and ate a good 15% of my frags. He lives in my Sump now. I also have a starfish which only just suddenly started eating Zoas.
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at11ok
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Mine kind of started right when it was introduced to the tank. It never ate it where u could tell it’s being eaten other than the fact that the Kenya shrivels after he nips at it. I’m guessing it nips at the little finger hairs when it opens and not where u can tell it has chuncks missing.
Rmckoy
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When it comes to angelfish some will only pick at specific corals .
as a experiment the old way was to add the fish , and slowly add one species of coral at a time .
if it picks at that specific coral , try something else .
for example .. any emperor ive had doesn’t pick at sps , Xenia, gsp , palys or hammers but will make a Meal of any other lps
if you know it eats Kenya . Either remove the fish or do not stock anymore Kenya . Or softies .
As every fish is different , what works for one person . Doesn’t always work for another
as a experiment the old way was to add the fish , and slowly add one species of coral at a time .
if it picks at that specific coral , try something else .
for example .. any emperor ive had doesn’t pick at sps , Xenia, gsp , palys or hammers but will make a Meal of any other lps
if you know it eats Kenya . Either remove the fish or do not stock anymore Kenya . Or softies .
As every fish is different , what works for one person . Doesn’t always work for another
Rmckoy
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Foxface eating corals ?
Never seen it before …
But if fed well they are said to leave corals alone .
jaganshi066
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I wish my dwarf angels are some of my Kenya trees, they seem to populate quickly.
I feed heavy at 8+ cubes a day.
The foxface grew to 6 inches very fast and would nip the tops of my green slimer only. It stunted the growth. My slimer is about 10" across and is starting to go upward now.
It was easy to net as I hand fed it nori. Its in a fish only 350 now.
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