Hi all hope all is well.
I've done quite some research on this but would like your opinions on best all round fish for pest control ,preferably a wrasse
Tank been up and running 10 months and parameters stable ,nitrates a little high but as just started adding corals.im hoping they help reduce nitrates and upped my weekly wc from 10% to just under 20% roughly which is 50 litres in a 300 litre roughly total volume water system
Current fish.......and main reason I got them.
Tail spot blennie= algae control
2x clownfish.= daughter wanted
Coral beauty= good active fish
Blue streaked cleaner wrasse=clean fish possibly
Silver belly wrasse= all round pest eater
Copperband butterfly= aiptasia control
Ywg+ pistol = just cos cool
Bi colour blennie= algae control
Want 10 maybe 11 fish in my 80 g system so fish I'm asking opinions on be last fish or second to last fish depending if get a foxface but undecided.
Fwiw I not actually got a pest problem that I know off.except I bought a gsp months ago and had some woodlice looking bugs and seen black tiny bugs in system and they now near my green slimer sps frag but seem to be on frag plug eating algae and not the coral but just incase would like a wrasse that eats acro black bugs if that's what it is but don't think so.
My thoughts are Leopard wrasse or mscoskers wrasse or possibly some kind of flasher wrasse.or maybe even a red scooter dragonet .or six line wrasse.
So any opinions on all round pest control fish be appreciated so can help me make up my mind incase I'm missing something thanks .
Just to add,would prefer if fish you mention didnt or aren't known to eat cleaner shrimp or cuc members if possible.
Like example I seen few say sixline eats urchins but also seen many others say it didn't .so just personality of some fish different than others of same species just like us hey ^_^
I've done quite some research on this but would like your opinions on best all round fish for pest control ,preferably a wrasse
Tank been up and running 10 months and parameters stable ,nitrates a little high but as just started adding corals.im hoping they help reduce nitrates and upped my weekly wc from 10% to just under 20% roughly which is 50 litres in a 300 litre roughly total volume water system
Current fish.......and main reason I got them.
Tail spot blennie= algae control
2x clownfish.= daughter wanted
Coral beauty= good active fish
Blue streaked cleaner wrasse=clean fish possibly
Silver belly wrasse= all round pest eater
Copperband butterfly= aiptasia control
Ywg+ pistol = just cos cool
Bi colour blennie= algae control
Want 10 maybe 11 fish in my 80 g system so fish I'm asking opinions on be last fish or second to last fish depending if get a foxface but undecided.
Fwiw I not actually got a pest problem that I know off.except I bought a gsp months ago and had some woodlice looking bugs and seen black tiny bugs in system and they now near my green slimer sps frag but seem to be on frag plug eating algae and not the coral but just incase would like a wrasse that eats acro black bugs if that's what it is but don't think so.
My thoughts are Leopard wrasse or mscoskers wrasse or possibly some kind of flasher wrasse.or maybe even a red scooter dragonet .or six line wrasse.
So any opinions on all round pest control fish be appreciated so can help me make up my mind incase I'm missing something thanks .
Just to add,would prefer if fish you mention didnt or aren't known to eat cleaner shrimp or cuc members if possible.
Like example I seen few say sixline eats urchins but also seen many others say it didn't .so just personality of some fish different than others of same species just like us hey ^_^
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