Corals - I am ready to throw in the towel!!!

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Sorry to hear Rick. I'm afraid with your fish vs corals situation you are screwed. I know a lot of people suggest to the contrary but I believe that you cannot compensate for bad feeding behaviours by feeding heavy. Once they learn that something is "food", they will never unlearn it. I'm afraid you might have a choice to make in this regard.

To be honest your coral issues sound eerily similar to my own and I'm now of the belief that my fish are responsible for a lot of damage that I don't necessarily see them do. I think they do a lot when we're not looking. Besides my two butterflies (whom I know damage a lot) I'm no longer 100% trusting of my potter's angel or my rabbitfish. Every now and again I see them take little nips at my remaining gorgs.. You have the same rabbitfish .. I dunno - maybe there's something there that needs to be examined a little closer.

Great advice Tony, but I also thought of that. I even took some coral to Red Coral to investigate that maybe I have bugs, critters, crabs, fish that may be eating things. But under the magnifyer, there are no signs of any of the above.

With the SPS issues, you have to be here to see it. When things died it wasn't over a longer period of time. For example a SPS coral I had for over 2 years, just suddenly started losing flesh. I took it to Red Coral, we investigated and fragged what was left. By the time I got home, the frag lost half or more of the remaining flesh, and within an hour in the tank, the rest was gone. This isn't from any fish or critter.

Other SPS, same thing... They start dieing, I would break them off and lightly move them in the water and sheets of flesh would just peal right off. So this is nothing to do with anything eating them.

If Dori, only eats the zoas, then I can live without them, as there is no way of catching her, and I won't destroy my tank to do it. I just hope see doesn't develop the taste for the SPS.

This hobby just SUCKS sometimes!

[DiverDude]

I'll take your corals Ricky !!