What on earth??!?!?!?!?

[SaltwaterTeen]

I found the perfect spots for my green stylo, and my pocilipora, and the green stylo, I noticed that my six line is like plucking at it. Should I worry? Or is six line not doing any harm?

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

So... is the sixline being nice?

 

[plack]

interesting I curious as i've seen My 6-line pulls at my leather and yellow polyps if anyone has any suggestions i'm contemplating removing him as he is fed well and this is very disturbing

 

[kevinpo]

My Sixline wrasse has been doing the same thing to my Seriatopora for years without harm. I'm not sure what they peck at but it doesn't harm the coral.

HTH,
Kevin

 

[Aly625]

six lines have been known to eat flat worms so maybe there is some sort of very small parasite that it is geting off of these frags?? a lot of fish will pick at corals but will not cause long term damage. all of my books list the six line as reef compatable so i wouldn't worry about it until you see it doing serious damage. then the only thing to do is take it out of the tank.

 

[Katchupoy]

Is it also possible that they peck the dreaded red bugs?

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

Red bugs only come on acros cesar

 

[Katchupoy]

I know... but the question is, can we use sixline for redbugs too?

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

Dunno, its a mystery... Do you think getting into acros is a good idea considering red bugs? I really want to get into acros, and im gonna email my granny if she could get me a GARF gift certificate, and I can use it to get frags like the purple bonsai (Probably My absolute favorite) blue tip acros, etc...

 

[NaH2O]

Cesar - I believe there have been quite a few attempts at finding a fish to eat the red acro bugs. I haven't run across a definate "this fish eats red bugs"....I believe Greg Hiller noted a particular species of pipefish, but I don't know that the SPS tank environment would work very well for this fish.