3 fish I will never buy again ! 😡

[Ogi]

1. Coral beauty - always fleeing at the sight of people, after months of peace it flipped killed 3 fish and starting feasting on my corals.

2. Bicolour blenny - this little dude is either constantly hiding or rearranging any coral frag it can.

3. Royal gramma - he constantly hides, super terrorism to all fish in the tank and absolutely loves to cover my corals in sand.

All three where sparsely seen unless it was feeding time when they were all pigs and got along, my two cents, this is the second time I've had to pull my tank to catch a fish

 

[MichelleMas]

How long did you have the Blenny. Mine took over a month to get completely comfortable now he is always out. He does like to throw things around but he's my favorite.

Coral Beauty do like to nibble on corals. Not completely reef safe.

I've never had a Royal Gramma but thanks for informing me about him

 

[juniorrocketdad]

My bicolor was my first fish so it may have something to do with that but he is always out and I have never seen him throw things other than occasional mouthfuls of sand

 

[mmittlesteadt]

I have a Coral Beauty, Royal Gramma and while I have a Lawnmower Blenny, I also have a Diamond Watchman Goby that does all kinds of massive landscaping with the sand. I love them all and they are great tankmates for all the others too.

Fish are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna find.

 

[nicoleah]

I have an ocellaris clown, a royal gramma, and a yellow watchman goby in my 120. The clown always stays within the RBTAs except to dart out a short distance to nab food. I absolutely love my royal gramma! She's always out and "begging" for food. She makes territorial "big mouth" at the goby every once in a while but he mostly sticks to the right-lower strata of the tank where his pistol shrimp lives. It's pretty amusing to see them square off at each other but none of my fish have damaged each other. The gramma has never bothered anything else in the tank, either.

YMMV...

 

[mfaso24]

3 fish I will never buy again !

My bicolor blenny decided it was cool to takes bites out of my sps... Needless to say he was kicked out

Also had a problem with a flame angel nipping. But other than that I've never had a problem with the royal gramma.


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[Thomeski]

I love it when my royal gramma dose a big mouth to my hawk, no provlems with it too

 

[MMacro]

1. Coral beauty - always fleeing at the sight of people, after months of peace it flipped killed 3 fish and starting feasting on my corals.

2. Bicolour blenny - this little dude is either constantly hiding or rearranging any coral frag it can.

3. Royal gramma - he constantly hides, super terrorism to all fish in the tank and absolutely loves to cover my corals in sand.

All three where sparsely seen unless it was feeding time when they were all pigs and got along, my two cents, this is the second time I've had to pull my tank to catch a fish

How big of a tank was the coral beauty in? They can go roque if not properly housed. Blennies spend most, if not all of their time in rockwork, it is perfectly normal. This may also be due to more agressive fish scaring it away.

 

[Ogi]

They were all housed together for months, the bicolour killed two of my sps from the nibbling, it's a 40 gallon cube, slightly tight, the problem with my gramma was it wouldnt ever flash it mouth or threaten, it would literally just attack other fish.

 

[BigEZ77]

Interesting to hear your experiences. May affect my stocking decisions.

 

[polaravic]

My Bicolour Blenny ate my corals as well.

So did my Coral Beauty. I went away one weekend only to come back with half the corals almost dead.

My Royal Gramma was a model citizen.

polaravic

 

[spdjnky]

Our Royal Gramma is great in our 75gal
Many its just your tank size

 

[PatW]

My royal gramma has been a good fish. But he is in alarge tank.

 

[davocean]

Royal gramma is almost always a good citizen

 

[Cliving1]

I have a Coral Beauty, Royal Gramma and while I have a Lawnmower Blenny, I also have a Diamond Watchman Goby that does all kinds of massive landscaping with the sand. I love them all and they are great tankmates for all the others too.

Fish are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna find.

You never know what your going to GET.

Lol

 

[Timfish]

I gotta have more details on your setup and how long you've been keeping reef systems. I've have all three of those fish and none of your complaints. Are they always out in the middle of the tank? No, but it doesn't take long for them to show up.

 

[Sk8r]

I've kept blennies in general with no problem. The bicolor is an odd one---a combtooth blenny that mimics a fang blenny, (others don't) but it also comes with quite a few cautions about nippishness, so the 'fang' imitiation apparently extends beyond appearances. I'd say you'd be fine with other combtooth blennies, but maybe not the bicolor.

Never had any problem with the gramma. Angels of any sort, however, are apt to go rogue with your corals with not much warning. So apparently, can foxfaces...if the experience of my lfs is a guide: longtime resident foxface took to munching euphyllia.

 

[eastlake]

I wonder if you didn't end up with a Brazilian gramma instead of a royal gramma. They look incredibly similar and can be very agresive in comparison to the Royal. I have two male royals in my 150 and they're great, never jerks to each other or new additions.

 

[bat21]

My gramma did the open mouth thing many times. Seemed goofy and harmless. Last week though he attacked a clownfish pretty violently (The only fish that was in the tank longer than the gramma) Clownfish is fine. But my opinion of the gramma has totally changed now that I know he's capable of that. Still deciding what to do, if anything.

And I know mine is not Brazilian.

 

[Scottshopinc]

Yeah, fish are like people they all have different personality.