How do I get my bi-color blenny to stop harassing my duncan. For some reason this guy cannot leave this coral alone. Noticed one day that it wasn't opening up and the blenny was in the area. Almost without fail every time the duncan opens it gets nipped. I have seen it take a swipe or two at other corals but he only returns to the duncan. I have moved it 2-3 times (it is now completely out of any logical swim path) and still it gets hammered. Any suggestions.
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Strange - I have a bicolour and it has never harassing any coral as I know - on the other hand - I have not any Duncans either. This blennies is mainly micro algae eaters - your Duncan is not infested with any micro algae?
Sincerely Lasse
Sincerely Lasse
There is no algae at all. It only takes swipes off the skeleton not the polyp, once it closes up then the blenny moves on. Maybe it doesn't like how it looks or moves. I saw it take a couple nibbles at my cap when I first added it, now it just perches. I kept thinking it was a food issue but he/she is a PIG scrapping algae all day and then it eats frozen to the point that there is food just hanging out of its mouth. It only likes this one coral?
najer
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Just my experience, if you wan't corals then it has to go, it might adapt if you try and target feed it.
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I'd go to my lfs with either the duncan or the blenny in a plastic bag and see if they'd trade. I doubt you'll ever convince him it isn't food and when you do, he will likely just move on to another coral
CindyKz
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My molly miller blenny used to knock over every coral I put on the sand bed. He wouldn't pick at them, just knock them down. Then I'd pick them up. It was like caring for a toddler LOL.
He finally just quit.
He finally just quit.
I figured that'd be the name of the game... I finally got fed up Saturday and took it off the plug and tucked the base in a hole so with the polyp extended the base can't be reached. 2 days of solid extension. Unfortunately it won't grow that way, maybe enough time will pass to ween this little guy off jerk status.
I have not attempted YET. I will probably make that decision soon. I put two new pieces of SPS, my first acro and a forest fire digi. Both have been attacked. Im pretty sure that the digi is beyond healing (one day of scraping). I don't know what it is about this fish but I assume a standard trap will work with a little nori. Mine is too much of a pig not to try and eat it so he may be gone soon.
If they have a favorite rock with a hole they back into, just pull the rock out with them in it and put it in a bucket of water. They're one of the easier fish to catch this way. My bicolor is skiddish when I'm around the tank, he bites me when I put my hand near his hole and he doesn't come out of his hole when my hand is above the tank. Even when feeding. But that guy will stay in it's hole if I'm moving his rock around in the tank.
Finally evicted the bicolor. Took the whole rock out and placed him in his own tank. Does anyone know a good way to get it out of the rock without harming it (would like to put my aquascape back)? And any recommendations on a replacement ? I like the blenny personality just not munching corals FYI its a 40 breeder.
