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Kalied20
04/04/2007, 03:06 PM
I have had a sixline for about 4 months now and he eats everything put into the tank, but hasn't touched any corals or anything. Well till now that is. I got a small leather frag and it was doing good for a week or so then it just looked like it was falling apart. I could't figure it out. I got a little soap dish and hung it on the side of the tank and put the leather in there. This way I could watch it closer.

Well, I was sitting on the couch last night late, before the tank lights went out and I noticed something..... The sixline was inside the little QT soap dish picking a the leather and pulled a piece off of it. I couldn't believe it. The little bugger likes the taste of that thing so much he watched me put it in a QT and then figured a way to get in there.

Usually it wouldn't make me too angry, but the leather is one of the nice bright green polyp one from Wayne's brother......DANG IT.

Has anyone had a problem with the sixline eating corals before? I knew they might bother fish and inverts, but corals and particularly leathers??????
anthony34
04/04/2007, 03:14 PM
normally they do not pick corals, however they may pick at something that like bug or parasite that my be on the coral to eat perhaps there is something on the coral thats really hard to see that it is going after and then on the other hand it just might like the taste of the coral itself :)
SRT80
04/04/2007, 03:14 PM
that sucks.....you think the leather will be ok and recover?

Steve
Kalied20
04/04/2007, 03:16 PM
don't know if the coral will be ok or not. It is looking pretty sad. I put the QT all the way at the top of the water so that the wrasse can't get in it unless he jumps out of the water.
mamagoose45
04/04/2007, 08:04 PM
We had one of the suction cup shower caddies in the tank awhile back with some corals in it, suctioned that the top of the caddy was actually out of the water. We walked into the room one night and our sixline was in the caddy chasing after all of the pods that were hanging out in it. She jumped out of the water to get into the caddy...when we went to get the caddy out to get her, she lept into the air again and back into the tank.
Kalied20
04/04/2007, 10:35 PM
Well, I looked a little more into the situation, and I am pretty sure that the coral was dying before the fish picked at it.