ThRoewer
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Your Regals and Flames don't bother your corals?
The regals nip on one green favia, but don't do real damage to it. It's a $10 coral and it's still growing despite the nipping. I think they are going for the slime and not for the tissue (the Philippine regal in who's tank this coral was before took more serious bites out of it and exposed some skeleton, but that healed quickly). The Tubastrea, Blastomussa and Acanthastrea I have in there are not or only minimally bothered.
They sometimes pick on certain Acropora, though they don't target the corals, but rather some food it caught or algae growing on damaged parts.
The most destructive thing the smaller of pair one does is nipping on my sea stars - 2 of them show already some damage. The Fromia milleporella looks the worst. Next time I see it I may have to move it to another tank in the system.
In general I feel they are more interested in all kinds of Algae than corals. They were even eating the growth tips of Halimeda calcareous algae when I had them in the 42 gallon tank.