Regal Tang nibbling on brain corals :(

[voxmode]

good morning and wan to check with the experts out there ...

all the corals (cynarinas, fox, octos, elegance, hammers) in my tank are healthy and opening well. EXCEPT for four of the brains whcih never open at all. A careful watch reveals that two of my regal (blue) tangs are nibbling on the brains which speaks why they never open up at all.

Is it common for blue tangs to nibble at corals? my other tangs incl sailfin, purple, yellow - do they pose as a hazard as well? other fishes inside incl pair of maroon clowns hosted by a rose anemone and few cardinals ...

any comments and suggestions are most welcome and thanking you in advance for your kind feedbacks.

a newbie,

[Thexder]

Try feeding your regal tangs more often. But normally, tangs don't nibble on corals.

[khawyc]

feeding more to ur regal tang, then your brain will open big big.last time feed 1 times per day & my regal tang nip my brain, it also finish my zoas x3 rock between a mth.

[ReDDeviLs]

i heard b4.. blue tang,sailfin and powder blue tang nip on corals b4..

[vt_snowman87]

my dad had a blue tang that finished all his zoas and pratas.. yupps blue tangs do go bad.. must keep a watchful eye on them..

[yooyoo99]

Mine recently also turn bad a few weeks ago.

Been nipping on my lobo and candy cane. Increase feeding doesn't help.

But i gave it a ultimatum, nip my rics/hammer and it will disappear the next day

[gny]

I also have this problem on Regal tang(or Blue tang).

When its ~2~3" in size, no problem.

But as it grows, it started to nip at my LPS.

More feeding will not stop them fr nipping.

It especially likes zoas, brains & cinas.

Thats why these corals will not 'open' with this #@% nipping on it.

Only solution is to Remove them!!

They are very smart, not easy to catch/trap them.

What I did is to remove all the live rocks & catch the TROUBLE maker.