(Short version, like other blennies some reported sps nipping, mine decided it likes rock flower Anemones!)
In case anyone was thinking of one. Yknow those so ugly they are cute almost little boggle eyed blennies? I'd caution against it. IIRC when I had looked at them first a year or two ago. They were supposed to be reef safe, maybe some nipping at say sps perhaps. But otherwise were just drab ugly little oddballs also rumoured to eat small aiptasia...
So 6 months or so ago got one. He's been shy. Dashes out to eat stuff but otherwise perches hiding in the algae he also doesnt touch. Even not doing his job of maybe eating the odd appy, he was a quirky hidden addition.....
Well in the last week suddenly my rock flower anemones (first 2 then a 3rd) started looking chewed up or otherwise kinda retracted and unhappy. I figured maybe some contaminant or maybe water quality getting worse in some way they don't like since nothing else having issues and no other changes/additions to tank.
Figured maybe nearby appies able to sting them or perhaps that it was my rock boring urching that lives entirely in a square 6 inche area that he patrols. So I removed a rock with 2 of the rock flowers a couple days ago over to an open area of tank they were away from everything.
Come home today after continuing to generally look worse..... Ones gone and other has very little left. And even a tiny one in far corner of tank not happy...... Mr Molly miller hanging right next to the chewed up rock flower. After like half an hour of watching, I caught him snap a peck at the rock flower........
So now trying to figure out how to catch the little bastard as he's very flighty and fast. Just surprised that of all the things to go after, he suddenly likes my nice rock flowers.
In case anyone was thinking of one. Yknow those so ugly they are cute almost little boggle eyed blennies? I'd caution against it. IIRC when I had looked at them first a year or two ago. They were supposed to be reef safe, maybe some nipping at say sps perhaps. But otherwise were just drab ugly little oddballs also rumoured to eat small aiptasia...
So 6 months or so ago got one. He's been shy. Dashes out to eat stuff but otherwise perches hiding in the algae he also doesnt touch. Even not doing his job of maybe eating the odd appy, he was a quirky hidden addition.....
Well in the last week suddenly my rock flower anemones (first 2 then a 3rd) started looking chewed up or otherwise kinda retracted and unhappy. I figured maybe some contaminant or maybe water quality getting worse in some way they don't like since nothing else having issues and no other changes/additions to tank.
Figured maybe nearby appies able to sting them or perhaps that it was my rock boring urching that lives entirely in a square 6 inche area that he patrols. So I removed a rock with 2 of the rock flowers a couple days ago over to an open area of tank they were away from everything.
Come home today after continuing to generally look worse..... Ones gone and other has very little left. And even a tiny one in far corner of tank not happy...... Mr Molly miller hanging right next to the chewed up rock flower. After like half an hour of watching, I caught him snap a peck at the rock flower........
So now trying to figure out how to catch the little bastard as he's very flighty and fast. Just surprised that of all the things to go after, he suddenly likes my nice rock flowers.
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