Best peaceful fish to eat killer amphipods

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So my amphipods like to munch on my zoas... Not the healthy ones, just the unhappy, weak ones. So when I introduce a new zoa to my tank, they like to have themselves a feast(only the pretty zoas.). I need a good fish to eat LARGE amphipods in my Biocube 29. I don't want a sixline since they get aggressive in smaller tanks, and I heard the fourline wrasse is a less aggressive relative of it. What fish do you guys recommend for my 29 gallon biocube that won't bully my yasha goby, 2 clowns, and firefish?

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two spot hogfish or a possum wrasse are a couple excellent hunters. thats just 2 off the top of my head.
 

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Yellow Coris or Possum Wrasse. Both will hunt forever in the tank. With a yellow coris you get the added benefit of them eating flat worms should a few strays ever enter the tank.
 
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OK thanks guys... I'm going to try and find a yellow coris wrasse, or some of those others. I have lots of baby snails in my tank, will it eat them?
 
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I'm 100% positive. They don't eat healthy zoanthids, only the stressed out ones.
 

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I really like my canary wrasse(yellow coris) great addition for so many reasons:
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Color, as you can see from the photo. Always hunting, I had zoo nudis and mine eradicated them before it became an issue. Peaceful, gets along with everybody. Hardy, mine was eating flakes from day 1. Cool to watch bury themselves in the sand.
 

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Oh yeah, price, they are under $20. And size, stay pretty small so any size tank will work.
 
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