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I have never had a tang eat coral, nor did I believe my tang was the culprit. I recently added this large blue hippo, that my dad has had for years. My dad's reef was pretty pathetic, basically only xenia, gsp, and ysp and 1 large papa smurf chalice. He never messed w/ anything in his tank.
I have a mixed reef w/ sps, z & p's, chalice, euphyllia, acans, clams, trachyphyllia, etc. First I lost my black maxima, tested water. Params perefect. My trachy. that is always fat is closed, tested water. Params perfect. Then all my acans and zoas on the sand bed are constantly being flipped over. So I started searching for pests at night w/ a light. Nothing! So I arrange my acans and zoas back in place, leave the room, and peak around the corner to watch if it is a fish could be doing it. I only have reef safe fish and inverts, stuff clowns, tangs, psuedochromis, and your normal clean up crew. So the thought that a fish doing it was not on my mind. So after peaking around the corner for about 10 minutes, I see that blue hippo flipping every acan, and zoa on the sand bed. I am sure he ate that clam, and I have caught him picking on the trachy. However, for some reason he doesn't eat sps, chalices, or even zoas on the rockwork. There are even chalice frags by the acans and he won't flip those. What the heck is up with this fish? He gets an awesome diet. I feed them purple, red, and green nori soaked in selco, garlic, zooplankton, plankton, krill, squid, etc. This is crazy! I am trapping him today, and taking him to the LFS. :uzi:
I have never had a tang eat coral, nor did I believe my tang was the culprit. I recently added this large blue hippo, that my dad has had for years. My dad's reef was pretty pathetic, basically only xenia, gsp, and ysp and 1 large papa smurf chalice. He never messed w/ anything in his tank.
I have a mixed reef w/ sps, z & p's, chalice, euphyllia, acans, clams, trachyphyllia, etc. First I lost my black maxima, tested water. Params perefect. My trachy. that is always fat is closed, tested water. Params perfect. Then all my acans and zoas on the sand bed are constantly being flipped over. So I started searching for pests at night w/ a light. Nothing! So I arrange my acans and zoas back in place, leave the room, and peak around the corner to watch if it is a fish could be doing it. I only have reef safe fish and inverts, stuff clowns, tangs, psuedochromis, and your normal clean up crew. So the thought that a fish doing it was not on my mind. So after peaking around the corner for about 10 minutes, I see that blue hippo flipping every acan, and zoa on the sand bed. I am sure he ate that clam, and I have caught him picking on the trachy. However, for some reason he doesn't eat sps, chalices, or even zoas on the rockwork. There are even chalice frags by the acans and he won't flip those. What the heck is up with this fish? He gets an awesome diet. I feed them purple, red, and green nori soaked in selco, garlic, zooplankton, plankton, krill, squid, etc. This is crazy! I am trapping him today, and taking him to the LFS. :uzi:
