Is this blenny reefsafe?

[Qasim]

Hello I have got this blenny for a couple months now and my corals were doing fine until last night I added an sps frag and I just noticed it nipping at the coral.

 

[725196]

Good morning. I did some reading. It seems blennys are, for the most part, reef safe. Some make the claim they are not but it seems to anecdotal. That being said, the animals in are care all have personalities and can act out side of what would be considered the normal behavior. Some fish can be good for a really long time and then start doing something, we the keepers, considered bad.

In my opinion, I don’t think it is your blend causing issues (I could be wrong). I would look for patterns and maybe do some water tests and maybe and ICP test to determine if it is water related.

For full disclosure, idk what the blenny you have is called so I did some general reading on that shape/type of blenny. Good luck and I hope those with more direct experience will join the conversation.

 

[Qasim]

Thanks for the reply I thought the same for it to be reef safe, and I just noticed it nipping at the coral and it is only this coral that it is nipping at not any other corals.

 

[Alchameth]

Looks like a bicolor, and all the ones I've had over the years have never bothered any of my corals. They do nip and graze on algae though so maybe there was a little something on the SPS that caught its attention.

 

[nereefpat]

Any of the Ecsenius spp blennies *can* nip at SPS. It's frequently reported by reefers.

 

[jda]

I would not trust any blenny with polyps. None. Midas might be the most trustworthy, but I have seen them nip with my own eyes.

 

[Qasim]

Yeah just noticed that it is nipping at my other sps as well. Now is the question how to catch it as it seems to be impossible without taking out the whole rock. Just cought him nipping at this as well.

 

[Midrats]

I've never had a blenny that didn't nip. I just resist the urge to put them into my tanks anymore.

 

[Qasim]

yeah it seems it is going for the small polyps and now is finding a way to get it out

 

[nereefpat]

Fish trap or hook and line. Use the smallest hook you can find. Cut the barb cut off with sidecutters. Bait with shrimp.

 

[Midrats]

It got so bad with my last tailspot sadly he had to get harpooned.

 

[Qasim]

Sad to hear that I have a tank that it can go in there a nano tank with lots of algae but if I only catch it

 

[ScubaFish802]

edit: saw post above

 

[Johniejumbo]

I watched my bicolor blenny pretty much destroy a 4” mystic Montipora. Luckily it hasn’t started in on anything else.

 

[jda]

As long as we are at it, most gobies are a risk too...especially the clowns.

 

[Qasim]

Finally got him out with a bottle diy fish trap I made and that is waiting for almost 24 hours