Somebody has a vendetta with my scoly!

SamMule · Mar 1, 2021

Every day for the last week or so, I've come home to see my scoly flipped over in the sand. I've placed it in multiple locations all over the tank, and it seems to happen no matter where I put it.
It's not happy about the abuse.

Can I glue it to a rock to keep this from happening?

sagee · Mar 1, 2021

Absolutely! if you don't it'll probably die from stress after a long enough time of being regularly fliped upside down.

SamMule · Mar 1, 2021

Cool. It's done now. Guess we'll see how strong the mystery offender is!

sagee · Mar 2, 2021

Hahah if you have any large wrasses (Christmas, melanurus, or a cigar wrasse) ive seen those flip all kinds of corals, in my buddy's tank I got some thin marco rock and mounted his stuff to that and then buried just the flat Marco rock under the sand, that way it still looked like the coral was just resting on the top of the sand but the big cigar wrasse couldn't flip anything anymore. Hope your glue does the trick for you.

SamMule · Mar 2, 2021

Yup. Those were my prime suspects. Yellow Coris wrasse and red lined wrasse. Funny, they've been in the tank for months, but the issue started maybe 2 weeks ago.
Scoly hasn't been flipped since I glued it to a large piece of rubble. I did exactly as you described and buried the rubble in the sand.
So far, so good!

Pudgeshambley · Feb 19, 2023

SamMule said:
Yup. Those were my prime suspects. Yellow Coris wrasse and red lined wrasse. Funny, they've been in the tank for months, but the issue started maybe 2 weeks ago.
Scoly hasn't been flipped since I glued it to a large piece of rubble. I did exactly as you described and buried the rubble in the sand.
So far, so good!

Was your scoly OK after getting flipped? Woke up to mine flipped over this morning. This is my first scoly so not sure if it is a huge deal that it was upside down for a little while