Risk of soft corals killing sps?

[Tigé21v]

I added a mystery wrasse last Friday to my 90 gal mixed (240 total water volume). Unfortunately , the (much smaller ) six-line wrasse will not leave him alone. The five bar stays under a hairy mushroom colony continuously. Never out, not eating.
It's looking like my only choice if I want to save the five bar from certain death will be to completely remove everything from the tank to get one of wrasses out. The tank has a LOT of soft corals (mushrooms, palys, zoas) . I'm afraid moving, and removing , them is going to have an adverse effect on my sps colonies.
I don't want to lose the fish, but also not looking to lose many hundreds of dollars' worth of sps.
Can disrupting the tank on such a magnitude be done safely? Would a water change and/ or running extra GAC neutralize the effects?

Thanks

 

[TVH]

Have you thought about using a fish trap instead? That might be better than tearing your tank apart like that. I did something similar and the results were not pretty. Most of my SPS's have recovered but some didn't make it and even the ones that did still have color issues.

 

[Tigé21v]

I have a trap , but i really don't think I could catch him. Maybe every other fish, but not him.
Did u remove your corals to a separate container, and replace the water you used to hold them in with new water?

 

[TVH]

I pulled all the coral out and put them in little containers, then pulled most of the rock out, then combed the sand looking for wrasse. I tried to keep the coral at an even temp and moved the water some but they were just in Tupperware containers since I had not planned on it taking hours. Then everything got stacked back in. Next day everything came back out and the wrasse were caught then the rock was re-scaped and the coral was put back in. After all that the coral was NOT happy but with better planning you can probably prevent a lot of the stress. My problem with catching the wrasse was that it got late and they went to sleep. Couldn't dig them out of the sand then.

 

[NYCBOB]

a stressed out fish should be easy to remove, since it gets tired from being harrassed all the time. i did something like that in the past by not researching b4 adding new fish. luckily the new comer got tire of being chased all day, it was an easy catch. breaking down a tank over one fish isnt worth it imo.