coral eating

Never heard much of this from this specific type of tang so I was just wondering if any of you ever had any Acanthurus tangs eat coral. I first noticed when moving corals from the sand to new rocks due to a court jester goby that kept burying them. I watched the gold rim rip two heads off the...

I never knew this was a thing until I just experienced it. My PBT is nipping the heads off a couple Goni's and a Hammer. Searches in this forum and elsewhere reveal a surprising number of people having gone through this with multiple Tang species including the PBT. It has been with me >3...

Hello all today I bought baby Valentini puffer it would be an understatement to say I’ve fallen in love as he is already so interesting but I must now ask, Ive learned they can indeed be coral eaters and while I may not be able to stop it is there any little things people have learned to do to...

I have the perfect sized one spot foxface on hold at my LFS, but i’m worries about adding him to my tank, which is entirely soft and LPS coral. How likely is the risk they will eat my coral? I feed my tank every other day with more mysis shrimp than the fish can finish.

Hi everyone! I have read plenty abo it how bristleworm a are mostly good with the exception of one kind. I don’t think this one is that bad type but I suspect this fella was doing something I’m not too happy about. I have a cauliflower coral right by where I spotted him today. A couple of days...

Who's eating my pulsing xenia? My tank livestocks are: 1 six line wrasse 1 gold strip maroon clown 1 maroon clown 1 lubbock wrasse 1 banana wrasse 1 sailfin tang 1 red basslet 1 blue chromis 2 skunk cleaner shrimp 1 purple firefish 1 nasarius snail 1 sea urchin (new addition) Few turbo snails...

I recorded a time lapse and found my bicolor blenny biting my leptoseris. It's there a way to stop this because I really like the fish.