All sps lovers should aware of this fish - Leopard Blanny

[peong]

Hi Guys,

Recently just bought this beautiful creature from ah beng thought that she can help me to clear some rock's algae, but she not only clearn up algae for me, further she also clearn up my sps stony polyps, Oh NOT,"stop doing that dear, they r my loves one okay!!!, Sorry, indeed u r so beautiful, but my head boda liao, need to go peijing 101 for treatment..., YOU OUT FROM MY SPS TANK NOW!!!"

[tansh]

Last time i saw it selling at ah beng shop.I ask ah beng and he told me not reef safe.Did you check with him b4 buying?

[peong]

no lol, thought is the same family as sand blanny...

[Gouldian]

Ya leopard blenny is the infamous sps killer!

[peong]

We should list out some infamous sps killers like this in SRC so to ease all sps keepers. Maybe I can start this topic first.""

[peacemaker]

IMO, a general rule of the thumb is not to buy livestock that you have little or no knowledge of. This will save you unwanted casualties.

[BFG]

Best is to have a tablet that you can take with you to the lfs. You could use it to check what you need to know. I had bought a fish without knowing it actually bites other fish to eat their scale. Was told by ah beng it was a blenny but it injured a few of my prized fishes. After this incident, I brought my tablet to the lfs. A few dollar fish cost me so much stress at home.

[peong]

Yes, a table like this w helps, can share your table to us.

[sherman]

Thank You for sharing.

[peong]

The more ppl sharing the more happy reefing!

Cheers!

[peong]

Just discoverted that this guy not only a SPS killer but will also kill some of the LPS. I had removed a few pcs of SPS and now saw this guy start to attack my Red Brain.

[peong]

Is really a disaster to have this guy in my reef tank, I thought that during night time there will be no activites for this guys so I left my remianing corals in the tank and just wait for next day to catch her out, but unfotunately I saw this morning my very beautiful plate from GO has been chipped off one side. Oh dear, she just like the hungry ghost looking for whatever she can eat.

[chrislwp]

I bought this from ah beng before without knowledge of it's diet too. Luckily I quarantine fish, and I read up more of it before releasing to main tank. Otherwise I wont be able to catch it out.

Do u manage to trap it?

[peong]

Still trying very hard to trap this guy but she seem like knowing what I trying to do... Must pray to God liao...

[peong]

Finally caught this evil out of my 6ft reef tank, my corals can now go home for long recovering... Next is how to change her diet in my nano tank? probably put stick food on the sps skeleton. Yes, it work! That is how I lured her to the trap box.

My painful story closed!

[chrislwp]

I tried for a few weeks before it willing to eat mysis shrimp. But it's too skinny from starvation, in the end still up lorry.

[peong]

I will try to feed her with stick food on the spa skeleton again tomor, hope she will still have mood to eat.

[peong]

Oh no, story not end yet!

After saving and putting back my corals and rocks, I cannot find my Mystery Wrasse today. Don't tell me she when gone case because of that? This fish should be quite hardy right?

[peong]

Amazing, I found this guy went into the sump's refugium, still try to figure out how its journey?

Well, my leopard blenny seem like very boring in my seahouse tank today...

[Eniram]

They are not called mystery wrasse for nothing

[chrislwp]

They are not called mystery wrasse for nothing

Haha.. Well said.