You find a fish you really like nipping at your corals... what do you do?

[Daniel@R2R]

Let's say you tried a reef safe "with caution" fish like a dwarf angel or something similar only to catch it nipping at your LPS and/or SPS. What would you do? Would you rehome the fish, move it to a new tank, adjust your coral keeping to accommodate keeping the fish in your tank, or some other solution? If this has already happened to you share your experiences.

NOTE: This isn't something I'm dealing with currently. Just thought it would be a fun conversation.

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Jail time with hopes for early releasal.

 

[Tacoma22]

Let's say you tried a reef safe "with caution" fish like a dwarf angel or something similar only to catch it nipping at your LPS and/or SPS. What would you do? Would you rehome the fish, move it to a new tank, adjust your coral keeping to accommodate keeping the fish in your tank, or some other solution? If this has already happened to you share your experiences.

NOTE: This isn't something I'm dealing with currently. Just thought it would be a fun conversation.

First time a warning, second time a formal write up, third time promote him to customer? Lol

 

[X-37B]

Remove and rehome. I have done it more than once.

 

[davidcalgary29]

I hold a little, tiny funeral for the polyps (complete with wreaths made up of GHA and aiptasia "flowers"), and make cooing noises at the fish. They're so cute!

 

[nosduj]

rehomed, my emperor angel went a solid month without eating any soft corals, one day I came home to bare rock where my zoas were. I love corals, and didnt want a fowlr tank so he got traded for a pile of corals

 

[Tamberav]

Just stop keeping whatever coral it is eating. Plenty of other corals to choose from. They are pretty filler/habitat for fish.

 

[Gtinnel]

I will take the fish and mount it’s head on a pike inside the tank as a warning to any other fish that are considering eating my corals.

Honestly though it depends upon how well I like the fish and how well I like the type of coral that it’s eating. I’ve only had it happen once with a fish that was eating my euphyllia and I removed the fish and put him in another tank.

 

[TurboTang]

I have a dwarf angel and older foxface that have both taken some samples of my corals. With the angel it's all about placement of the coral - he doesn't like new additions, so I sometimes have to move the frags around to accommodate his behavior - but after a while he lets it go and then I can put it where I want. With the foxface it's all about food. I no longer but a large sheet of nori in once a day, but rather half sheet in morning/night. And an algae wafer once a day to snack on. No problems when they have something to snack on most the day

 

[TurboTang]

I have a dwarf angel and older foxface that have both taken some samples of my corals. With the angel it's all about placement of the coral - he doesn't like new additions, so I sometimes have to move the frags around to accommodate his behavior - but after a while he lets it go and then I can put it where I want. With the foxface it's all about food. I no longer but a large sheet of nori in once a day, but rather half sheet in morning/night. And an algae wafer once a day to snack on. No problems when they have something to snack on most the day

I set up a camera once to see who it is - I'm not sure who's watching who

 

[Reefer Matt]

I would remove the fish using the red spectrum on my lights and a net. Then rehome/donate it after explaining it eats coral, etc. I keep fish in my reef tanks to feed the coral, and have a separate fowlr tank for the fish I prefer as pets.

 

[Blue Cheese]

I Let him eat and don’t buy that coral again

 

[moz71]

After 2 years of model citizen my regal angelfish decided he liked zoas and hammers. Those corals were wiped out in 2 days. Now I am just going SPS. Hopefully he leaves them alone. Since I love this fish

 

[Dbichler]

I like fish more than corals so I just avoid corals that the fish eat.

 

[davidcalgary29]

I'm just impressed that no one's suggested putting in an elephant ear/cup coral colony for revenge. Dun dun dun!

 

[Rmckoy]

Depends on the coral and fish

 

[vcollins9850]

Let's say you tried a reef safe "with caution" fish like a dwarf angel or something similar only to catch it nipping at your LPS and/or SPS. What would you do? Would you rehome the fish, move it to a new tank, adjust your coral keeping to accommodate keeping the fish in your tank, or some other solution? If this has already happened to you share your experiences.

NOTE: This isn't something I'm dealing with currently. Just thought it would be a fun conversation.

Left him be since I didn’t want to go chasing a bicolor angel and ripping tank apart, knew I would never catch him… so I just set up another tank to move the zoas to

 

[genetao]

Simply move the offending fish into my FOWLR. I have one because I can keep non-reef safe fish in it. With a turf algae scrubber and fast growing invasive zoas in the sump, it’s an uber low maintenance tank.

 

[HomebroodExotics]

That's the way she goes.

 

[Rovert]

Have a toothpick and tartar sauce nearby.

All kidding aside, I just listed an Imp Angel the other day for re-homing. Luckily I have a taker and we're meeting up tomorrow.

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Healthy juvenile Imperator Angel for sale. Beautiful fish, very healthy, eats everything... but he's been pecking at my LPS from time to time - particularly a cynarina - so it's time to send him to a new place. I just don't want to take a chance that when I add any clams they'll wind up with...

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