Goby bit Frogspawn!

[Jello]

My frogspawn hasn't been looking so great for the past few days, and today I caught my yellow clown goby taking a chomp out of it! I knew they sometimes nip at SPS polyps, but frogspawn?

Is there anything to do that might help it decide to quit doing that? It 'owns' other corals (green monti and finger leather) and never seems to bother them.

[cath]

Accckk! I don't know, Jello, but let's move this on up in the queue. Someone out there will be able to help you

[Alice]

Hmmm...do you have more than one clown goby in the tank? I know that if you have a pair that they will bare a section of SPS down to the skeleton for nesting purposes but I've not heard of them going after LPS. Then again, your fish may not have read the book

Alice

[Jello]

There is only one clown goby in the tank. I moved the frogspawn to the opposite end of the tank (away from the goby's 'territory' and into the Royal Gramma's) and it was good for a few days. I was hoping the Royal Gramma would help me out by chasing the goby out, but no such luck. I caught goby chomping on frogspawn again. It takes a little chomp out of each tentacle until the entire thing is all 'deflated'.

Could it be hungry? It doesn't actually eat the frogspawn pieces it bites off, just spits them out. It eats food when I put it in the tank (frozen variety pack stuff).

Or maybe it is jealous of how much I like the frogspawn, though I try to tell it that I love everybody equally...