Please help ASAP

[bigmick88]

My blue hippo tang suddenly decided she wants to be a coral nipper. I've now seen her nip at my dendro's (mainly these only) my duncans and even once to my torch. My question is, if all of these corals seem to still be very healthy and show no signs of true damage, are these small nips ok? I don't know if I should take the tang out or just let this go. Please help me ASAP, thank you to anyone who helps.

 

[loopy101]

how often do you feed the tang?

 

[d-dzel]

What kind of food do you provide? I had a powder blue that nipped at some corals once in a while, but after I started putting some nori in the tank, he completely stopped.

 

[bigmick88]

I feed either cyclopene or spirnula every day and later in the day I clip nori dipped in garlic guard. The tang is fat, if anything over-fed. I think he nips the dendro's so that they will spit out the mysis in which I fed them earlier in the day. Im getting so stressed over this.

 

[deejeff442]

typically if he is just nipping here and there and not just concentrating on one coral i wouldnt worry too much.they corals will recover .
just keep an eye .sometimes tangs just nip at everything all day and the corals are just in his path.
is he still nipping at algea on the rocks?
if so he is just grazing around that is what tangs do unless the corals are shrunk all the time he isnt really doing any damage.

 

[mech-a-nic]

+1 I have a Hippo tang I thought was nipping my Acro frags he was realy just getting fine small hair algea.

 

[bigmick88]

She tends to nip the dendros more than anything, I think she realized that if she does, they will eject the mysis shrimp that i fed earlier in the day. She focuses on the dendros though. Really frustrating

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by Bigmick88
http:///forum/post/3108069
My blue hippo tang suddenly decided she wants to be a coral nipper. I've now seen her nip at my dendro's (mainly these only) my duncans and even once to my torch. My question is, if all of these corals seem to still be very healthy and show no signs of true damage, are these small nips ok? I don't know if I should take the tang out or just let this go. Please help me ASAP, thank you to anyone who helps.

I had a hippo tang that nipped coral...I took it to the LFS and traded it in for another fish...sometimes they just do.
Once they start they won't stop.