Unimaculatus eating corals!

[chariton]

Hello I bought a foxface a couple of weeks ago(it’s my second foxface the other one died suddenly) yesterday I lost my clam and today I saw it eating a coral. It only eats frozen food (mysis, artemia) itis not eating flakes at all. Even nori it only swimming around. Is there any possibility to save that or it has to get out of my tank asap?

 

[X-37B]

Mine only chewed the tops of my green slimer, lol. I rehomed it.

 

[Uncle99]

It can and will nip at tastey looking stuff.
I got rid of mine after he took out 15 or so heads of hammers.
Not all do this though and mine was good for years, then, all of a sudden.

 

[chariton]

I think I lost some heads too. He is going to live alone now at the dump until I ll find out why I ll do

 

[Uncle99]

Ok, once they do that, they will not stop.
Mine went to the dump as well, RIP.

 

[chariton]

He is swimming at the sump now

 

[chariton]

Is there any way to get him back on display tank without loosing any corals?or there is only one way never get back?

 

[Cthulukelele]

So I'm going to go against the grain here. They may peck at the coral, but in my experience this sort of behavior they want to scrape at the skeleton for algae.

 

[chariton]

So I ll keep him in the sump until starts eating flakes etc and then I ll give it a try once more.

 

[VintageReefer]

Unfortunately no. Fish don’t always do this out of hunger. It’s a curiosity or an urge. You can feed them a double portion and 10 min later he could be nipping coral again

I only put 3 cardinal fish and a fire fish in my tank because my corals are important to me, and some are expensive/rare

Well all was fine and after 1 yr and 2 months a Cardinal continuously nipped a 5 yr old gold hammer colony and killed it. Then he started nipping and killed a Duncan mini colony. Then acans. Then he started nipping my holy grail torch. I put him in qt. Sure enough about a month later, one of the 2 remaining cardinal fish started nipping a 2 yr old 25 head Duncan colony and also acans.

Now I have to set up a separate tank for them and I’ll rehome all 3. I’m sure it’s just time before the third gets curious like the first two did

 

[littlefoxx]

Either they eat coral or they dont from what seen. Mine didnt touch coral when I had corals but there is a fair amount of people on here that have bad luck with them eating corals