Houston, we have a clown problem

[Mark_C]

Seems my foray into SPS, in which I bought some semi-pricey corals, has hit a bump in the road.
I initially thought my strawberry shortcake died from the base up due to water parameters.
I was thinking the same for a green acro that just started dying this week.
Until I saw one of my clown gobies eating it.
I watched him for 10 mins and the SOB was eating it.
So I moved it. The coral that is.
And he followed it.
And today I bought a pink millie to get some pink/red in the tank.
And the SOB is eating it.
HE seems to like it now more than the green one.
I'm watching the little &*^$%#& right now, he's sitting near the base of it taking the odd nibble.

Here's my green acro atm, which was fine earlier in the week...


The question...

Aside from ripping my tank apart, which, with my rockwork and corals finally set up pretty close to perfect, I don't want to do...
Anyone have a solution for catching a yellow clown goby?
My options atm seem to be kill it (bad option) or rip down the tank (not good option).

 

[horseplay]

Trap it, with the pink milli as bait of course.

 

[Hallowhead]

yikes. you hate to see it. Try to setup up a fish trap.

 

[diana a]

I have read that they do that. Cute fish though.

 

[myrjon]

What do you want part of his name has clown in it.sump him.btw.moma says clowns are evil.

 

[Sponge]

Sorta sorry to hear this. Meaning it sucks the little bugger is doing it. But hey. At least you know it’s not your water or your husbandry

 

[MadReefer]

I would use a fish trap and a piece of coral to bait the F$%&er.

 

[Juano908]

I used to have one and took him out of the tank for the same reason.


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