Is There Any Truly Reef-Safe Blenny?

[MC Blowfish]

My bicolor blenny was nipping at my plate coral. I moved the coral. It could have been food that floated on the coral that the bicolor blenny was going after. I'm lucky enough to have a second tank, so I could move it.

 

[BryanM]

Hello everyone,

I love blennies, but after having a tailspot blenny decimate some of my SPS corals, I did some digging and realized I’m not the only one. After checking the forums, there are multiple posts about blennies—tailspots, bicolors, midas, pictus, and others—nipping at or outright eating corals.

So my question is: is there any blenny that’s truly reef-safe? Or are all blennies more accurately described as “reef-safe with caution”?

Thanks.

I have a lawnmower blenny and it doesn't bother any corals, and is quite fat.

 

[PleaseThink]

All benthic feeding fish are a risk to corals. I have had more issues with blennies than butterflies in my tanks. Tons of people have issues with tangs and corals. Yet people call tangs and blennies reef safe while condemning angels and butterflies.

Had bicolors eat acans, starry blenny eat gorgonians, and a lawnmower pick at leathers till they died.

Some of the Fang blennies, Meiacanthus, are pelagic feeding so should be pretty reef safe.

 

[atoll]

I have a midas blenny, 3 stary blennies and 3 sabre toothed blennies none have ever bothered any corals.

 

[fish_collector]

My starry blenny didn't bother corals, it chased other fish and the magnet cleaner once in a while but was coral friendly.

 

[PleaseThink]

Weird double post