Any Recommendations For Chaeto Eating Fish/Inverts

[reeferisland]

We have a Blonde Naso Tang that loves chaeto. Eats it like it is candy.

 

[Noah's Shark]

All good information. Thank you all.

We have a Blonde Naso Tang that loves chaeto. Eats it like it is candy.

Unfortunately, my tank is not big enough to house a Naso. It's a shame because they are really cool fish.

 

[jeffchapok]

Emerald crabs and turbo snails eat mine.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Emerald crabs and turbo snails eat mine.

That's odd I have a turbo and a trochus that pull the graveyard shift in my fuge and neither will touch it. I have seen them on top of it eating film algae and gha but never the chaeto it self.

 

[ScottB]

My foxfaces and orange shoulder tang love to eat caulerpa and red graciosa. I clip it to the side daily. Never tried chaeto with them tho.

 

[R0C95]

So I bought some display tank dragons breath today. Rubber banded it nicely to a frag rock, set it in my tank. Within 1 minute, my emerald crab Godzilla'd that **** and had picked up the chaeto, and frag rock and was eating it.

Moral? Maybe an emerald crab will eat your chaeto like mine apparently does?

 

[Noah's Shark]

So I bought some display tank dragons breath today. Rubber banded it nicely to a frag rock, set it in my tank. Within 1 minute, my emerald crab Godzilla'd that **** and had picked up the chaeto, and frag rock and was eating it.

Moral? Maybe an emerald crab will eat your chaeto like mine apparently does?

There's no downside to trying it. I could use another emerald crab or two.

 

[R0C95]

There's no downside to trying it. I could use another emerald crab or two.

It's hilarious. I have mostly higher end lps in my tank, and super colorful fish that my 4 yo daughter picked out (it's her tank), yet the WHOLE family just finds themselves looking for that dumb spider legged emerald crab. Hes literally the star of that tank. What a personality!

 

[Vette67]

If you want something that absolutely mauls chaeto, get a long spine urchin. My urchin is about 10” diameter, and he has eaten at least his own body size out of that chaeto ball in the last few days. I don’t expect it will be much longer until the entire 20” ball of chaeto is gone. He likes to hang upside down and eat it from the bottom up.

 

[Noah's Shark]

It's hilarious. I have mostly higher end lps in my tank, and super colorful fish that my 4 yo daughter picked out (it's her tank), yet the WHOLE family just finds themselves looking for that dumb spider legged emerald crab. Hes literally the star of that tank. What a personality!

Funny how that happens isn't it?

If you want something that absolutely mauls chaeto, get a long spine urchin. My urchin is about 10” diameter, and he has eaten at least his own body size out of that chaeto ball in the last few days. I don’t expect it will be much longer until the entire 20” ball of chaeto is gone. He likes to hang upside down and eat it from the bottom up.

Yes! Thank you! I will definitely look into this further.

 

[Picasso the Triggerfish]

If there is one invert that looks like an algae black hole, it must be the Blue Tuxedo Urchin, if you have a tank of 50 G or more and you want to get rid of algae or get rid of trimmed algae but don't want to get stinged by the LSU, the BTU is your guy, but they have downsides, they also eat coralline algae and grab small rocks and some corals that aren´t well secured to rocks and walks with them (BTU uses this to cover from strong ligth)