Bicolor Blenny eating my Toadstool ??

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mikefishkeeper

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Hello,

I've had my 30 gal tank up and running for about two months. I have a lot of live rock in the tank and about 1" aragonite substrate.

So far I’ve added 1 Banded Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Trochus Snails, 2 Red Legged Hermit Crabs, 2 Clown Fish and a Bicolor Blenny (named him Lenny!). A small colony of Green Striped Mushroom Anemone and a Small Toadstool Coral.

Anyway, everything has been going well, corals seem to be growing and the livestock is doing well etc. until this morning when I came down to find that there is a big chunk missing from the Toadstool :help:

I suspect Lenny the Blenny has been feeding on the coral but I was wondering if I might be wrong? He eats a lot of algae from the rocks and the back glass on the aquarium so I don’t think he’s hungry (he does massive green poops too!). Could there be some unseen culprit in the tank doing this damage? He's a funny little guy with a very quirky nature and I would hate to have to take him back to the fish shop.

I was wondering if anyone else has had this kind of problem? and thanks for reading my post :)
 
MIke: I have a bicolor blenny and I have all sorts of soft corals, LPS and SPS. Mine does not bother any of them...including my toadstool. But based on the list of inhabitants that you have in your tank, I can't think of one of them causing a "bite" out of the coral. It is a bit of a mystery.

And the bicolors have a quirky personality...and lots of it. HTH - this is just my experience over the past year.

Is the toadstool in front of Lenny's hiding hole?
 
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hi, i've posted this pic of the toadstool so you can see the damage :(

Blenny hangs out in that general area of the tank and has a few hide holes near the toadstool.

the "bite" looks a bit worse than it did this morning too. I dont know if its little lenny thats done the damage or something else hiding in the rock...hmm its a mystery right now!

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My Bicolor Blenny likes to peck at lots of things, mostly just to get the algae off, but he never does any damage. That chunk looks far too big for a blenny to do, I would have said its some kind of tissue damage or decay.
 
I agree this "bite"looks far to big to be the blenny. I would put the camcorder on it if you have one.
 
Check this bad boy out!

Well looks like it defiantly was not the blenny after all....phew!

Staked out the tank last night after lights out and found this guy creeping around....

mystery solved, I nearly jumped out of my skin :eek3:

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