Yellow eye kole tang nipping sps to death

[SpSChief85]

So I finally seeded my cube with some great looking healthy frags from james, another member here on RC and my kole tang nipped the milli almost immediately and afew others, I had got some zoanthids a week prior and he nipped a polyp on them too, sadly this tang was my first tang I owned when I began in the hobby some years ago, unfortunately I'm going to have to remove him, just wanted to hear some feedback before I relocate him and make it aware to some that may have issues with a reef and have not realized what I have about the kole tangs and the potential threat they have on our corals.

 

[scooter31707]

I thought my Mimic was doing the same thing, but come to find out he wasn't actually nipping the coral, there happen to be some algae on them and he was grazing on that. So make sure before he goes.

 

[jraker]

How much are you feeding it? It may be because the tang is not getting enough food, so it is eating the algae that exists in the coral.

 

[Deinonych]

i thought my mimic was doing the same thing, but come to find out he wasn't actually nipping the coral, there happen to be some algae on them and he was grazing on that. So make sure before he goes.

+1

 

[roberthu526]

They usually just nip on the base of the coral to get some algae. Are you feeding algae sheets in the tank?