fish eating my mushrooms?

[reef dude]

Ok, heres the story. Today at work(local fish store) my boss/owner of the store brought in a bunch of nice pieces of LR from his tank that had a bunch of caulerpa and tiny red mushrooms on them. So i brought home 3 nice pieces. 2 pieces of rock had apprx. 3-4 tiny mushrooms a little bit smaller than a penny or a dime. 2 hours later i came back to my tank and one of the rocks was completely missing the mushrooms and the other rock had about 2 left, but they were all chewed up and had chunks missing from them. Could any of my fish have done this? My red sea sailfin tang ate just about everything off of my rocks when i bought him, and he eats like a pig. could he be a suspect? I also have a marine betta, longnose hawk, fire gobies, clown, yellow wrasse.

 

[beth]

How much are feeding your fish?

 

[reef dude]

Beth, thats a good question, i was going to ask everyone about my feeding. I put a fairly good sized piece of gore's aqua salad (seaweed) everyday attached to a plastic clip for my sailfin tang and yellow wrasse. for the other guys, i feed one frozen cube of formula one, once a day. is that too little?? they all go nuts when i feed them but they look pretty well fed, if you look at their bellies! my tang is a garbage disposer though, he's bitten my hand and arm twice! i do notice my wrasse picking at the LR a lot of the time though....

 

[flydan]

Hey,
You didn't mention what other critters are in your tank. Could be part of your clean-up crew. I once had a mithrax crab (emerald) from hell that not only munched shrooms but tore into my elegance coral as well. It's a long story, but true! The best thing to do is just camp out in front of your tank and watch.
HTH,
Dan'l

 

[ags]

I don't know anything about yellow wrasse' since I have never kept them but I remember my LFS telling me they are hit or miss. Could that be the problem? Just throwing that out there. I might be mixing my thoughts up though.