Chromis ate sps then died?

[bct15]

I have a few questions that require a brief explanation first;

I have a school of six regular chromis, and have had it for a long time (over two years). Before I went out of town on Friday I noticed my biggest chromis, darkest blue with a neon blue pattern on his face, nipping at an extremely hairy 3.5" prostrate colony I have. There was some exposed skeleton in an area he was nipping, and the colony had recently fallen and might have gotten some damage right there or the chromis might have done it, I'm not sure. When I got back in town that colony is completely dead now and that chromis is MIA. It is easy for me to spot it because it is bigger an looks a little different than the other five. So my questions are;

Do chromis start eating coral or was he picking at something else on the coral?

Do you think it ate the whole colony while I was gone?

Do you think nipping at the coral caused it to die? I have had these chromis for a long time and they are very healthy, and this one was the healthiest and now poof gone. I also see a little fin damage on my yellow belly blue tang so maybe something else happened.

Thanks


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[Bubbles_B]

interesting i would like to follow this to see what people say...

 

[bct15]

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[-Logzor]

Fish will eat corals where there is dying flesh. Similar to how pods will feast on dying SPS. Your coral fell and tissue died in a small area. The Chromis ate the dyin flesh, irritating the coral even more, causing the RTN. The Chromis didn't help but it didn't exactly eat the colony.

In my experience, Chromis will do well for awhile, like 1-2 years, then they begin to die off until only one is remaining. I don't think the two events are related at all.