candycane tissue damage

HA!  Good luck.  I have an engineer goby and he's got plenty of caves to move between.  I can't think of any way to get one out of a tank besides tearing it down.  As a rule, I try to keep all my coral above and away from the engineer's caves.  And as for tissue damage, do you have a photo?  I have a hard time seeing a candy cane receiving tissue damage merely from having sand dumped on it.  One time I was moving some things around and I brushed a head of my candy cane against a rock, hard!  It was pissed for a couple weeks but recovered just fine.  If the tissue is receded, that does not mean it is damaged, just mad that it got sand dumped on it.  I'd advise moving the candy cane to another location versus tearing apart your tank to take out 1 fish, more than likely damaging other coral in the process.  

Thank you I will try the pop bottle idea. What size of pop bottle?

Thanks for the mirror idea. 

Almost forgot, Size of the bottle is relative to the size of the fish. In this case a water bottle would probably work, but for larger fish we would use a 2 L pop bottle and cut off the neck just far enough so the fish would be able to go in. It's kind of remarkable how they have trouble finding their way back out and eventually just sit there as though they are waiting to be released.


Edited by Mark Peterson - April 25 2012 at 11:35am