Dwarf angels rehabilitation?

[frank]

Hi all, now that I'm populating my 180 with corals, I've noticed that a couple of my fish are indeed coral nippers.

My Nox angel and Flame angel have both been busted red handed partaking of the juicy goodness of the new frag polyps that have entered my tank as of late.

Has anyone had any positive results trying to rehab coral nippers? I was thinking of a more varied diet and a 24/7 nori sheet for grazing.

My thinking is to keep them fat and happy and they won't go messing with other things.

 

[cbj25]

In my experience, once they get a taste they will continue. Fish are opportunistic eaters; therefore, if they always have food (ie your corals) they will always be eating.

 

[bdooley]

My flame angel took out half of my Xenia in two days so I feed him heavy and he hasn't touched a coral in almost a year.

 

[reefknight]

A buddy of mine was going through the same thing. He added a very small Flame Angel and it did great for a few weeks, then started nipping at both LPS and SPS. After attempting to catch it to no avail, he began feeding heavily. Since then it hasn't touched a coral. Just a thought to increase feeding of the dwarfs.