Tangs eating Xenia?

I bought a frag of Xenia and covered it with some plasric netting so as to keep my tangs from possibly eat it. When I came home from work The netting was disarranged and the Xenia gone. Anyone seen a tang (Yellow Eye) so aggressive and eat xenia?

 

I have not but my Devil / neon damsil loves them.

 

I have found tangs, especially hippo, will pick on anything. I once lost a red open brain the size of the bottom piece of a 5 gallon bucket, lots of gorgonians, and more recently clams to my hippo. What a PITA.

 

Was the frag firmly attached to something? I recently got some xenia frags and it took a few days for them to attach firmly to the LR rubble I had them on. Perhaps your frag just got disturbed by something (stupid stupid hermit crabs in my case) and got blown away by the current...

 

Could be. I had just attached the frag to a piece of rock that night with a rubber band. I had it pretty well covered with plastic netting. I was curious to see if anyone else has had a tang or other fish eat Xenia. This Tang of mine will eat anything, I mean anything! Lettuce, peas, seaweed, dry food, pellets, formula 1 and 2, green algea, anything and everything in the tank.

 

I don't think your Tang is the culprit... As mentioned Damsels can deplete a tank of Xenia(4-striped humbug) almost desimated my mine til I removed it and placed it in my other tank!
It is possible that the Xenia hadn't fully attached and thus fell from where you had it originally!

 

Oh it could of come off. I wasn't able to find it in the tank and the plastic mesh was all discombobulated. I had assumed that maybe the tang was pecking at it. He pecks at everything else. I'm going to give it another go with another frag that is established.

 

xenia..hahahaha:
make sure u put it in a spot where it's easily accessible.
i heard that most ppl who get it end up giving chunks of it away cuz it spreads so fast

 

Tangs eating xenia? - doubt it.

Damsels maybe...

Most likely shriveled up and will show up elsewhere in tank.

 

I would opt for the tang maybe "discombobulated" the plastic mesh then realized there was nothing he wanted in there, and the Xenia got out and is some where in the tank.

I also agree with MushroomHead, make sure you put it where you can cull it once in a while because it does spread. I started with 1 piece 6 months ago on one lonely little rock. Now I have it everywhere in my 10. Which isn't an issue to me because I love it.

If you want to keep it in check attach it to a rock and put it in the middle of your sand away from rocks, glass and anything it can lean over ans attach to, because if it can touch something it WILL spread.