Rabbitfish eats Zoanthids

[bdubbya]

This has been destroying a hard worked on aquascaped zoo garden, a brown spotted rabbitfish. Only today was he finally observed both tugging on and eating the zoos, so the whole tank will be demolished tonight to get the sucker out. He was originally put in only to eat byropsis (which he had ate willingly at a LFS) but never touched it {the B.} at all in my tank at home.
Anybody else have similar experiences with this awesome looking (yet seemingly destructive) rabbit? I was under the impression that he was "reef-safe" with the exception of eating sponges. For this one, I was dead wrong. And by dead, I mean a whole bunch of missing zoos. I mean ALOT in the last 3-4 days.

 

[ophiura]

It is purely an individual thing. I had this sort of experience with a rabbitfish in a 3500g reef tank (not so easy to get out)...and he killed several very large giant clams

and I noticed zoanthids never stood a chance either. Little creep. Nice looking fish though. So this type of fish has gone on my "you never know...." list along with dwarf angels and things. It just might....
Sorry about having to take the tank apart but at least you caught the culprit. :yes:

 

[murph145]

i had one in my tank a few months back he decided he liked my pagoda cup and was nipping at the polyps.... he was a pain to get out but got him out with some coaxing but yeah they do seem to like some corals....
good luck gettin him out...