sailfin tang

[sam1207]

Hi all i have a problem i have a red sea sailfin tang and today i notice hes nipping at a wellspylliia brain coral.The coral is located on my sand bed i dont want to lose either one but i also dont want the tang to kill the coral.The coral has been in the tank for about a month now. Today i notice the fish nipping it alot and now its shrank alot in size from getting nipped.is there anything that can be done or does the coral have to go this is the only coral i see him bother they are in my 110 gal tank.Any help would be greatly appre thanks again. Sam

[Loverotties]

Try feeding the tang more(Have a piece of seaweed in the tank at all time.) and maybe just moving the coral to a new spot mite work too!

[Ben Nicholls]

Is there anything that is attracting the tang? My blue tang started nipping at my clam. It ended up that there was a sessile snail on the clam (the kind that make the spider web looking mucus to catch stuff in the water). The tang was going after the stuff caught by the sessile snail and nipping the clam in the process. I pried it off the clam and the tang was still nipping because it remembered it being there. So I moved the clam a few inches and the tang forgot about it.

So anyway look to see if something is under the coral or if food is getting caught in it that is attracting the tang. You also may need to move the coral to make the tang forget about picking on it.