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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.
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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.
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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.
 
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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.
20260210_192202_B495B3BC-11C2-47D9-9FAD-D355F944EC49.png

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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.
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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.
 

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