Hello Fellow Reefers,
I am once again at wits end with a new fish!!! About a month ago, I bought a bi-color blenny from live aquaria hoping it would take care of some of my algae problems, about the same time my brain did not open, and has not since. A few days after I got the fish, I happened to notice the blenny biting at the brain, not good, 80.00 brain vs 14.00 fish. I tried my trusty tang jar to get the fish out, all the other fish cleaned out the jar before the devil fish could get in it. The jar was in my tank for 2 weeks and I tried every night to get that little bastard to go in it. It got to the point where as soon as all the other fish saw me come into the room, they would all make a bee-line into the jar. For the past ten days I have been trying to kill the thing with a pointed bamboo skewer, but now the fish "knows" it is marked and everytime I go in the tank with skewer, it retreates to the back of the tank instead of the bolt holes it calls home. If anyone has any other suggestions (other than tearing my tank down) please post them here. My next plan of action is to try going after it with an exacto knife, I would prefer a non lethal solution but this little bastard is smart as hell.
TYIA
Mike.
I am once again at wits end with a new fish!!! About a month ago, I bought a bi-color blenny from live aquaria hoping it would take care of some of my algae problems, about the same time my brain did not open, and has not since. A few days after I got the fish, I happened to notice the blenny biting at the brain, not good, 80.00 brain vs 14.00 fish. I tried my trusty tang jar to get the fish out, all the other fish cleaned out the jar before the devil fish could get in it. The jar was in my tank for 2 weeks and I tried every night to get that little bastard to go in it. It got to the point where as soon as all the other fish saw me come into the room, they would all make a bee-line into the jar. For the past ten days I have been trying to kill the thing with a pointed bamboo skewer, but now the fish "knows" it is marked and everytime I go in the tank with skewer, it retreates to the back of the tank instead of the bolt holes it calls home. If anyone has any other suggestions (other than tearing my tank down) please post them here. My next plan of action is to try going after it with an exacto knife, I would prefer a non lethal solution but this little bastard is smart as hell.
TYIA
Mike.