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Old 11/20/2005, 12:11 AM
Biotech Biotech is offline
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Fish nibbling my zoos

lost several zoos colonies ,,, the Henichus, sailfin tang and the bicolor angel just love them. Is there a way to keep them away.
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Old 11/20/2005, 07:05 AM
MUCHO REEF MUCHO REEF is offline
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AHHH, the tang topic again. I think it is a great topic. Each year, we hear more about Tangs nipping at zoos. Some say it's a lack of feeding, I say the Tangs like to eat zoos, not all of them. I am not trying to start mass histeria here, but there are a list of Tangs out there by many of us right here on RC who have had/wittnesed them eating zoos.

Biotech, why don't you start a thread asking everyone to list the names of all the Tangs that have eaten zoos. For those who don't believe, they can't say that they weren't warned.

I learned of the Hippo Tang eating zoos from this forum a couple years ago. Then one day I saw my Hippo swim over to my red zoos and nibble away.

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Old 11/20/2005, 10:48 AM
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My Purple Tang loves zoos. He is now if a Fowlr
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Old 11/20/2005, 11:02 AM
Fishman1113 Fishman1113 is offline
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The only way you can keep the fish away, is by buying them a seperate tank. I have had more problems with Pygmy angels eating my zoos than I have had with Tangs. But I did have a Sohal one time that enjoyed eating my zoos.
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Old 11/20/2005, 12:24 PM
Biotech Biotech is offline
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So it is not a rare event ...
I was told I could only have one tank ... Some serious thinking to do ... keep my fish or keep my zoos .... I like both..
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Old 11/22/2005, 12:57 AM
Pansy-Paws Pansy-Paws is offline
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... does a nano count as a second tank ?????
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Old 11/22/2005, 01:43 AM
Biotech Biotech is offline
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good thinking - a nano tank for zoos I have to test out my convincing power ...
BTW, my fish did not pick on every colonies. I have one that started with 30+ polyps and now the rocks have more than 100. One rock that started with 100+ ended up having only 3 left after a couple of days... that 3 now have multiped to 15 ... hopefully more ... I also had one rock that the fish got every single polyps.
 

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