does anything eat macroalgae?

[fungia]

i am tired of caulerpa, does any fish or invert eat it?

 

[bubblepuffer]

my Hippo tank chew on any Macroalgae

 

[Anonymous]

I have found foxface rabbitfish to be good eaters of macro algae.

 

[Len]

Hey Laura, do you have any experience with other rabbitfish? I may try one myself.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Laura, do you have any experience with other rabbitfish? I may try one myself.

No, although I really was interested in an orange spot rabbitfish, Siganus guttatus that I saw at the LFS a long while ago. It was pretty and seemed to have a nice temperment just from observing it with it's tankmates.

They sure are pretty.

 

[Anonymous]

Len, as with any hebivore, just make sure it's fat and healthy (been eating most of it's time in the COC). If they're starved, or have been starved, it may not loive all that long. Most rabbitfish come in starved IME.

What other ones do you want comments on? I've kept many and found most to be very similiar in care and behavior.

 

[sanjay]

Len,

I am very wary of reccomending rabbit fish. Every one I have kept (the scribbled, orange spot, blue spot) have eventually turned to eating stuff I did not want them to eat, eg. zoanthids, soft coral, tips of sps. I always ended up taking them out of my system.

sanjay.

 

[Len]

I might try an Acanthurus instead, but if it doesn't eat any macro and beats up my black tang, i'll be pissed

 

[Anonymous]

I've had luck with doliatus rabbits in the past, consuming grape caulerpa that most other things won't touch. The one I kept remained well behaved, but I've known others who have had the same problems Sanjay mentions.

 

[bleedingthought]

I might try an Acanthurus instead, but if it doesn't eat any macro and beats up my black tang, i'll be pissed

Len, how about you go for an achilles or a sohal, then? Get a small one!

(I myself want a nigricans... )

 

[Len]

My Zebrasoma is suppose to eat Caulerpa. Somehow, he didn't get the memo. I'm thinking an Acanthurus sp. or a Blonde Naso. I've given up on the rabbitfish idea as they seem to be hit and miss in terms of reefsafeness. Look! I invented a word!

 

[fungia]

i am going to try a regal tang first, thanks everyone

 

[Newportreefer]

I was thinking that my Yellow Tang was not having any effect on the Caulerpa but recently I have noticed much less of it on the front of the reef and even some diminish further back.