110g Mixed Reef V2

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by fishytime

It appears, (and I hope it stays this way) that the nipping that I observed may have just been some exploratory tastes.

I find this is not an uncommon behaviour. If it's something new they may just be seeing what it is. After all, a lot of what your hands bring into the tank is pretty yummy.

But generally speaking healthy things don't usually smell like food so the exploratory nips stops.

No guarantees of course but just throwing my observations into the hat here.

I have always wanted a potters but they are supposed to be more prone to nip at corals and clams than the other dwarf angels.

FWIW that's not been my experience with this fish (with statistical sample size of 2 ). Both were model reef citizens (past tense for one, present tense for the other. I lost my first a few years ago in a tank-move/upset-ritteri incident ). In fact I've always heard that of the Centropyge species, the C. loricula (flame) and C. potter tend to have the highest hit-to-miss ratios. I guess it's just anecdotal stories. Ultimate it's always hit or miss and you never know until you know... (y'know?)