What is eating my aquarium?!

rock_lobster · Nov 10, 2018

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Bob Loblaw · Nov 10, 2018

Any urchins?

rock_lobster · Nov 10, 2018

Bob Loblaw said:
Any urchins?

Nope never have had one. Tanks been up for 4 years also this only happened last week.

cromag27 · Nov 10, 2018

time to break out the red light and stay up late!

rock_lobster · Nov 10, 2018

cromag27 said:
time to break out the red light and stay up late!

Im guessing its stomatella only thing ive seen lately and some pretty big ones.

rock_lobster · Nov 11, 2018

Anyone even aware of anything besides an urchin that will eat acrylic?

rock_lobster · Dec 28, 2018

Safe to say my tank has been completely ruined. each day it loses about 5% of visibility lol. Surprised I am the only one who has experienced this.

rock_lobster · Dec 28, 2018

Looks just as bad after cleaning it lol

garbled · Dec 28, 2018

I've heard that puffers will ruin acrylic by dragging their cute little faces across the front face and leaving ghastly lines like that. Maybe a fish of some kind that is "helping" with the algae? Any new fish?

garbled · Dec 28, 2018

Other possibility, a snail dragging it's shell in some odd way maybe?

rock_lobster · Dec 28, 2018

garbled said:
I've heard that puffers will ruin acrylic by dragging their cute little faces across the front face and leaving ghastly lines like that. Maybe a fish of some kind that is "helping" with the algae? Any new fish?

No havent had any new fish just a yellow tang and some damsels. I dont think its anything dragging or scraping because if you look very closely it is little circular bite marks each one is the same. It looks 100% like the little paths that snails make on the glass when they eat film algae.

reef lover · Dec 28, 2018

Algae blenny ??

rock_lobster · Dec 28, 2018

reef lover said:
Algae blenny ??

nope

Captain Quint · Dec 28, 2018

Might sound like a dumb question but does the Yellow Tang ever fight its reflection?

rock_lobster · Dec 28, 2018

Captain Quint said:
Might sound like a dumb question but does the Yellow Tang ever fight its reflection?

He very rarely does and for some reason when he does he has one small chosen spot in the far right corner that he fights. Though these markings are everywhere on the acrylic at least some on every square inch from top to bottom and it has been increasing daily.