Anyone know if one would eat my blue linckia starfish or my xenia, zoanthids, neon green leather coral, mushrooms, and photosynthetic gorgonian? Also what about my cleaner shrimp, my blue porcelain crab, and my army of hermit crabs? Only fish in the tank are two true percs, (4 damsels in the 55 gallon refugium though). My tank is 187 gallons and I would be willing to upgrade for him as he got bigger, since it's only around five inches tall right now. He is absolutely beautiful and eats like a charm, so I really would like to see him swimming in my tank, but I don't want him destroying all my new corals.
Tank Bred Pinnatus Batfish
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I've always heard they will tend to pick on and eat inverts, and do better in a species only tank
Here's a quote from Fishbase:
If the fish is still there and I can convince the parents I may actually buy it and see how it does. If it does go after the coral I guess I'll move all my corals and my clown pair into an empty 20 gallon and make a nano reef.
This, as well as some other encyclopedias etc. never mention coral as a source of food.
If the fish is still there and I can convince the parents I may actually buy it and see how it does. If it does go after the coral I guess I'll move all my corals and my clown pair into an empty 20 gallon and make a nano reef.
I was referring more to it going after your shrimp, hermits and porcelain crabs, not entirley sure about how they do with the corals. Sounds like you got a good plan in place to seperate if something does go wrong though
I've heard the opposite is the case actually. Not sure if I'm going to go forward with this though.
It can/will eat corals and inverts, hence the species specific. You are also right that you will need a bigger tank in time as they get very tall(big issue because the height makes any size tank significantly more expensive). Not an easy fish to keep at all. I think you would be better off keeping the setup you have and looking elsewhere for new inhabitants.