killer in tank

[zoomin80]

I have a cbs that has killed my baby percula,many snails,2 peppermints, and is picking on my new sun polyps.

I have tryed everything to catch him,traps hand,even the smallest hook you can buy but he just eats around it. is there any fish that will eat him.

 

[subielover]

How large is your tank? What else is in the tank? Reef or fish only?

 

[zoomin80]

it is 34gal rsm, reef tank,flame hawk,false percula,six line,many corals,gbta.

 

[jackri]

You can't catch a coral banded shrimp? Mine is pretty slow and backs right into a net -- no problems with mine though.

 

[subielover]

That's a small tank, I would just remove the rock until I got him.

 

[jackri]

Could also wait until the lights go out.. mine crawls over the reef searching for food at night.. hides during the day

 

[zoomin80]

i have tryed night and day no luck. now if he sees me walk up to tank he hides and will not come out. I realy do not want to move all rock and corals i want be able to place it back like i have it.

 

[zoomin80]

Thinking about gitting a sea apple and poke it with a stick

 

[mantisman51]

My lined puffer took care of my killer cbs.The cbs kept stalking a scooter blenny and one morning,I found him eating the poor little guy.I put the puffer back in the DT and the next morning there were two large antennae and no cbs.Funny things,cbs,I have one now that is a recluse and shows no aggression at all.

 

[zoomin80]

will the lined puffer eat corals.

 

[mantisman51]

No.I had him in my reef for about a year.He did eat mass quantities of algae.I've never read about other lined puffers being grazers, but he would often be found eating the green algae off anything it grew on.It was rather comical,because he would start at one spot and eat furrows through the algae.

 

[zoomin80]

thanks, i will try one.

 

[subielover]

I don't think that is the way to go. I think you should spend the hour or two it takes to pull your rock take him out and then reaquascape. JMO

 

[zoomin80]

just caught the sucker took your advice subielover. It was not as bad as i thought it would be. everything back like it was.