Purple tang gone BAD

[reefsandrotts]

Hey
Has anyone had a problem with a non reef safe purple tang?
Mine isn't,I bought a really nice zoa frag from a member here and it looked like polyps were melting away and dissapering,guess what my purple tang has been eating them I just caught him RIPPING them right off the mount and when I chased him away from the zoos he then decieded to desrtoy a tableing acro.

 

[oceanparadise1]

wow i think thats just bad luck my friend

 

[Eklikewhoa]

Rogue.....I have heard of nipping at zoas but this is the first I have heard of tearing up zoas and then being nasty towards sps.

Thump it.

 

[oceanparadise1]

yea ship him to me ill teach him a leason :)

 

[Nate82]

take out the trusty speargun...

 

[Chrissy]

Do you have a seaweed clip for him to munch on? I have a Hippo that likes to nip zoas, so I looked for info about it and I read a lot of stories about Purples munching corals, too. I have to make sure there is a seaweed clip all of the time and my Hippo will leave my zoas alone.

 

[Nate82]

chrissy you avatar.... it's beautiful.. what is that?

 

[Chrissy]

<sorry for the off topic reply> Thanks! It's a frogspawn mouth under actinics :) you can see the whole thing here http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37372&cat=500&ppuser=35886

 

[mfinn]

I've had several tangs that eat zoanthids.
Not nip, but eat.
2 different hippo tangs and 2 different purple tangs.

The most maddening thing is, they all only went after the nice stuff. RPE's, eagle eyes, etc.
They haven't touched the common green/brown button polys.