Carpenter Fairy Wrasse

[Artzevo]

I have a wrasse that with time learned to pick at frogspawn polyps to the point of damage. He killed my birdnest. Now he’s targeting my hammer. I can’t continue to cage every coral. Has anyone dealt with this before? I caught him, not sure if I need to trade him away or simply feed more. Although, I’m already feeding multiple types of foo twice a day.

 

[Baldguy]

I have a wrasse that with time learned to pick at frogspawn polyps to the point of damage. He killed my birdnest. Now he’s targeting my hammer. I can’t continue to cage every coral. Has anyone dealt with this before? I caught him, not sure if I need to trade him away or simply feed more. Although, I’m already feeding multiple types of foo twice a day.

First, there's no carpenter fairy wrasse There is a carpenter flasher wrasse. But either way it would be very unusual for any fairy or flasher to go after coral. Are you sure it's a carpenter? Can't tell from the pic.

 

[Artzevo]

I have a wrasse that with time learned to pick at frogspawn polyps to the point of damage. He killed my birdnest. Now he’s targeting my hammer. I can’t continue to cage every coral. Has anyone dealt with this before? I caught him, not sure if I need to trade him away or simply feed more. Although, I’m already feeding multiple types of foo twice a day.

First, there's no carpenter fairy wrasse There is a carpenter flasher wrasse. But either way it would be very unusual for any fairy or flasher to go after coral. Are you sure it's a carpenter? Can't tell from the pic.

My bad yea flasher wrasse! For a while I thought maybe he was picking at copepods, but I eventually caught him picking actual polyps. Once he picked at my birdnest and he chased after a polyp that came loose.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

this is highly unlikely. Those wrasses are reef safe

 

[Artzevo]

SOoooo I think he was picking my coral because the corals were already dying. I had very low dKH. I quarantined the wrasse for a short period, corrected my parameters. i did lose two LPS corals. But i think we've made progress. The wrasse is well behaved now and the remaining corals are healthy now.