Linear Blenny eating my sps

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

I purchased a Linear Blenny Ecsenius lineatus that is supposed to be reef safe and noticed today it's nibbling all my sps. Anyone else know this fish to be a sps eater or what could make it eat them? It's only been in the tank just over 5 days.

eatbreakfast · Sep 28, 2016

Ecsenius blennies usually are reef safe, but they have been known to nip at sps.

themcnertney · Sep 28, 2016

What kind of sps is it eating? Are you sure its just not nip at the algae surrounding it?

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

100% sure as watched it nibble several different plating and branching monti and now a chunk been take out my acro. It's exposing skeleton.

stevo01 · Sep 28, 2016

Maybe your Blenny has a personality disorder, and thinks it's an clown goby :)

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

Check out the damage!

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

stevo01 said:
Maybe your Blenny has a personality disorder, and thinks it's an clown goby :)

Just wondering if it's something that looks similar, a mimic of some sort?Got to catch it somehow!

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

Recommendations on trapping it!? I got get it in the sump

eatbreakfast · Sep 28, 2016

1979fishgeek said:
Just wondering if it's something that looks similar, a mimic of some sort?Got to catch it somehow!

Not a mimic. Some Ecsenius species do eat sps on occasion. Not all specimens, in fact most don't, but it can happen

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

eatbreakfast said:
Not a mimic. Some Ecsenius species do eat sps on occasion. Not all specimens, in fact most don't, but it can happen

Sooooooo typical I choose one.

stevo01 · Sep 28, 2016

1979fishgeek said:
Sooooooo typical I choose one.

Hahaha @ devilblenny

Frikkie · Sep 28, 2016

Gosh man, i bought one also about a month ago and threw it in my frag tank... It ate everything even mushrooms! Def not reef safe...

1979fishgeek · Sep 28, 2016

I am happy to report I caught 'Devil Blenny The SPS Destroyer of Doom' using a net and ninja like speed .... loads of unplanned fragging as a result! Lol

He got so much personality the little git and has gone to a better place ... My algae covered sump!

Pheeewwwwwwwwwwww!