Chocolate tang

[JJB103]

So my chocolate tang has acquired a taste for coral and demolished my mummy eye chalice and a green acro. Has anyone ever heard of a tang doing this?


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[DaveK]

I've not heard of this with tangs, but it doesn't surprise me too much. They have small rasping teeth, just right for going after those type of corals if they wanted too. Think how they can devour coraline algae.

This looks like a case where you will need to choose one or the other the corals or the tang. I'd trade in the chocolate tank on another species myself, but I wouldn't call keeping the tang the wrong thing to do.

 

[JJB103]

I will definitely be trading in the tang. I spend too much effort to keep corals thriving to watch him eat them.


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[jjmoneyman]

I had a yellow tang that liked polyps, so yes it does happen.

 

[sirrealism]

Yes i have heard of tangs eating zoas and palys but not eating chalice and acros. Thats a new one for me

 

[JJB103]

this is what I woke up to and I watched as he did all this.

and this is what is left of my green acro colony. I fragged all the good parts.

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