Your reef-safe fish that isn't/wasn't?

[MuShu]

My yellow clown goby likes to nip the tendrils of my duncan corals. This all started after one of the duncans go 1/4 of a cube of mysis during feeding. The goby doesn't actually eat the tendrils- just nips them off.

So, what is your reef-safe fish that wasn't?

 

[MrHyde]

I had to remove a Bicolor Blenny because it started to develop a taste for my Sunset Montipora. It wasn't eating the coral, but the occasional scrape just became too much. The polyps just didn't come out anymore.

 

[Drewl117]

I had a mellanarus wrasse that chowd my clam the same day I put him in. I cought him pecking at the mantel then about an hour later he was in the shell eating the leftovers.

 

[scooter31707]

I had a mellanarus wrasse that chowd my clam the same day I put him in. I cought him pecking at the mantel then about an hour later he was in the shell eating the leftovers.

They are not reef-safe when it comes to inverts, but never seem them nip at corals. In my case Lawnmower Blenny has been nipping corals. I was very shock.

 

[Greybeard]

Not necessarily a reef problem, but certainly a shrimp problem. Wife thought the red hawkfish was cute, so I brought him home. I know they're shrimp eaters, but he wasn't any bigger than my skunk and blood cleaner shrimp... Killed 'em all in a month. Had to pull every single chunk of rock out of the tank to catch the darned thing.

 

[drodge]

I'm brand new to the hobby and just started up my tank within the past several months. My local store told me the blue tang was good to go and it was the first fist that I bought. It hasn't eaten anything that I can see, but it's bangs on everything and has physically damaged several pieces so far. It just seems very destructive.

 

[Shivsreef]

Cleaner Wrasse picking at my clams mantle

 

[BeanMachine]

Bellus Angel that liked to much on my zoas skirts.

 

[Vteclover]

I had a blue tang that liked to bite in my zoanthids
Took 2 months to catch

 

[nereefpat]

Had to get rid of a kole tang because it was eating my candy canes. It was a tough choice.

 

[FloridaReefer33]

My Mellanarus wrasse is a real jerk to everything and an even worse nipper than my coral beauty.. Thinking of trading him in it's gotten so bad.

 

[david pinder]

I had 2 blue tangs eating sps. They can develop a taste for them when they get large.

 

[Sapelo]

Gold spotted rabbitfish make great hedge trimmers for zoas, should you need that service.

 

[Bdial]

Only one I can think of is my longnose butterfly. Its reef safe "with caution". I'm pretty sure he's eating my trachophyllia.

 

[madweazl]

Had a maroon clown that was gorgeous but would not stay out of a green bubble coral. Irritated it enough that I ended up losing it. Tried to catch that fish for months and gave up after losing the coral only to catch it by total dumb luck months later when I was feeding the fish one day (scooped him up in the brine net some how).

 

[Jscwerve]

The little *&%$#$% clown goby ****es me off every single day.

I had a green slimer colony about the size of a basketball. Slowly through his non-stop rubbing on. shaking on, nipping at he created spots that were obviously not going to make it.

I broke up the colony into several large pieces. I can't get rid of him because the woman thinks he's so cute. I swap pieces that I broke off the big colony from the frag tank to the display now, then swap again and let pieces recover.

Just this week I saw him hanging out in an acro. He may disappear when the lady is not around for a few hours.

 

[madweazl]

The little *&%$#$% clown goby ****es me off every single day.

I had a green slimer colony about the size of a basketball. Slowly through his non-stop rubbing on. shaking on, nipping at he created spots that were obviously not going to make it.

I broke up the colony into several large pieces. I can't get rid of him because the woman thinks he's so cute. I swap pieces that I broke off the big colony from the frag tank to the display now, then swap again and let pieces recover.

Just this week I saw him hanging out in an acro. He may disappear when the lady is not around for a few hours.

Toss it on the floor and say it jumped...

I knew it was wrong, I said it anyways.

 

[Jscwerve]

Toss it on the floor and say it jumped...

I knew it was wrong, I said it anyways.

The problem is catching a 1" fish in a 6' tank full of rock.

The "jumped out" excuse has crossed my mind. We have had a few fish with a short lived affinity for aviation in the past.

 

[Jscwerve]

Oh, and the little snot attacked my yellow tang the other day, twice!!! Yes, a 1" goby chasing away a 4-5" Yellow tang. Today the womanhead said she saw him chase off my foxface.

Seriously, how big this sucker thinks he is, is ridiculous.

 

[minus9]

I have a cb pair of clowns that beat the crap out of my Duncan after they've taken up residence in my euphyllia. Territorial b@$7@$&$!