Linear blenny nipping at SPS?

coral keeper

coral keeper

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I bought a Linear blenny and its been nipping at my SPS. To be exact, he nipped a tiny bit of my Tyree Blue chalice(doesn't touch it at all anymore), started to nip my Miami Orchid, and he nipped my Purple Tip acro so bad that 90% of its skeleton is showing. It hasn't touched any of my other SPS.
How do I make him stop? His belly is a little pinched in, so I'm trying to feed him as much as possible. I have a small sea weed sheet in there and I threw in a bunch of my home made food. He is eating the home made food, but I really don't see him touching the sea weed. Someone please help! I don't want to loose my SPS.
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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When I feed him and he eats quite a bit, he doesn't touch ANY coral at all. After a few hours he must have gotten hungry and that's when he starts nipping at the Miami Orchid or other sps.
I got him 3 days ago.
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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generally speaking ANY blenny that picks at rocks (most of them) are notorious for nipping SPS. midas and canary are about the only ones I can think of off the top of my head that are relatively SPS safe and they happen to be primarily plankton eaters.
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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What do you think I should do? Give him back? I called the LFS that I got him from and they said they will give me 100% credit back, or I can trade him in for another fish.
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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they are pretty safe except for SPS where they are fairly known to pick at. I guess they figure SPS are just more hard real estate to pick at.
 
spanko

spanko

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I say if you can get that kind of deal for a trade in and the fish is causing a problem, you would not be wise to keep it.
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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I CAUGHT THE LITTLE SUCKER!!! YAHOOOOOO!!!!
To tell you the truth, I kinda feel bad for him for some reason. lol He is sitting in my 8 gallon nonphoto bio cube for now. Maybe I should give him one more chance in the 8 gall biocube? lol There isn't much rock in there any ways. About 4 lb or so. So, it will be super easy to catch him out. What do you all think? Should I give him one more chance or trade him in for a different fish?
 
candycane

candycane

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Some blennies are notorious coral "slurpers". The are just really after the slimer that the coral is releasing (they can do the same to clams). If anything, I would be REALLY surprised if it was effecting ANY area but where he was slupring.
 
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