Kole Tang nipping coral

[Luke Schnabel]

It appears that my Yellow Eye Kole Tang is nipping at my LPS. He is either trying to nip the plug or the coral, can't exactly tell but all my Acans and my Trach are closed up. Do they usually do this or is he a rogue one?

 

[GimpyFin]

Unusual for a tang if he's actually nipping the coral.

 

[Cliving1]

Do you have an algae on the plugs? I have seen tangs nip the plug but not the coral itself. Curious if he's actually hitting the coral.

 

[jgraz]

When I had mine it nipped at hammer and frogspawn. Never noticed any damage though

 

[scooter31707]

I thought my Mimic Tang was nipping my corals, but it was actually grazing on the little algae that was on the coral. So just try to pay attention and see if the coral is irritated.

 

[Nina51]

most likely, he's going after the algae around or on the corals. i've seen mine do it.

 

[fishchef]

We had a Yellow Eye Kole for 15+ years and it never bothered the corals. Keep him well fed and maybe he'll not go looking. They graze all the time. LPS give off a brown discharge. They'll go for that, too.

 

[Fitz19d]

I had a kole that chewed on everything including sucking on bta anemone tentacles.

 

[Luke Schnabel]

Well I know for a fact he is going for the plugs, so he might be getting the coral a bit. But my trachy doesn't have a plug and it's been closed up for a while. I put it in my frag tank to see if he'll inflate back up since nothing will pick at him.

I'll just have to keep an eye on him more and see if he goes for the coral itself or just the plug.