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

[Sump Crab]

If it just eats one coral I’m ok. If it eats several it’s gone.

 

[Sump Crab]

I had a flame angel nipping coral but not eating the coral more or less just nipping. I lost no corals kept the fish. It died getting stuck in a rock eventually.

stuck in a rock? Story please!

 

[Dav2996]

stuck in a rock? Story please!

It tried going in a cave it thought it could fit got stuck I tried freeing it and it still died.

 

[Dav2996]

stuck in a rock? Story please!

It nipped stuff very rarely and they were so tiny you didn’t see any damage

 

[Tamberav]

Its the opposite for me. I care more about the corals than the fish, so it would be gone. Most of my tanks have only had a few small fish, and sone were fishless.

I think most people feel that way but there is no coral created that would make me give up my Copperband.

 

[Jesterrace]

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

This is my approach. Gave up on Acans and Trachyphillia, but have had zero issue with Mushrooms, Duncans, Blastos, Hammers, Frogspawns and Octospawns. I just returned the two aforementioned types to my LFS for store credit and haven't had any problems since.

 

[Jesterrace]

I think most people feel that way but there is no coral created that would make me give up my Copperband.

Corals are pretty, but just don't have the entertainment and personality that fish do. I can't watch my corals rip a piece of food out of another corals mouth and watch it lead all the corals on an entertaining chase around the tank.

 

[i cant think]

Stick to coral the fish won’t eat (Hoping it wouldn’t be SPS) and keep the fish.
I didn’t do this with my blenny because I like SPS more than E. lineatus.

 

[Nheko]

I have a Pygmy Dwarf Cherub Angel that likes to nip here and there occasionally nothing major as he’s well fed. If I had to choose I will personally pick my fish and stop buying the corals he eats.

 

[Dav2996]

I have a Pygmy Dwarf Cherub Angel that likes to nip here and there occasionally nothing major as he’s well fed. If I had to choose I will personally pick my fish and stop buying the corals he eats.

The angels keep the algae away from the rock and they bite coral. Tiny bites. At least what mine did it never killed anything.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Three different rabbitfish.

What do I do . . . . . . . . . . .

 

[flashsmith]

Let it feast. My corals are overgrown. The way I look at the situation is it's doing me a favor. The only thing I watch are my meat corals. The rest are fair game.

 

[Double monti 61]

How many times do you feed the fish?

 

[Dav2996]

How many times do you feed the fish?

I tried to feed their natural diet like sponges. Angelfish food has a lot of stuff in it read the ingredients and feed frozen.

 

[Projects with Sam]

My Emperor, Bicolor and Yellow angels were eating everything till I started adding Angelixir to the food I make them and they pretty much stopped touching my corals provided I feed them on time.

 

[InactionJackson]

Call for back up….that fish is going down!

 

[Supa]

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.

I’ve rehomed an angel and butterfly fish for nipping everything…. Despite the efforts of trying to cage the coral etc