Hardest Working Fish In Your Aquarium?

[PeterC99]

What’s the hardest working fish in your aquarium?

Toss up for me between Melanurus wrasse eating all the bristle worms and the Copperband that got rid of my aiptasia.

 

[muzikalmatt]

My tank's not big enough for tangs, so probably my bicolor blenny. He's pretty good about cleaning up random algae on the rock and glass, but he nips at some of my corals too. :(

 

[blaxsun]

My quoy parrotfish. He is singlehandedly keeping my coralline algae in-check. He even cleans the return outlets and overflow weir and deposits probably 100g of new fine white substrate daily. ;)

 

[mdb_talon]

My lunar wrasse for sure. Especially if we consider the following things work.....throwing snails at the glass, swimming in circles around powerheads, trying to beat his record for how far he can splash water out of the tank, and knocking over/breaking any frag that he possibly can.

 

[kittenbritches]

My foxface occasionally picks at algae, but the only utility any of my fish fill consistently is pooping. My corals look great. :D

 

[GHOSTLY]

Mandarins! Although they don't do anything they hunt all day and are therefore hard working

 

[EakTheFreak]

1.) Copperband Butterfly - Dude eats all Aptasia. Tank has been clean and free for 2 years since he has been in!

2.) Yellow Eye Kole Tang - Big old SOB about 3-1/2 years old. Crushes nuisance algae on rocks and glass constantly. I never have any nuisance algae in my tank!

 

[Gtinnel]

For me it's definitely my melanarus wrasse

 

[Auquanut]

My tangs do alright at keeping algae at bay. Seems like the older they get, the lazier they get.

I'd have to say that my hardest working fish are my melanaurus wrasse and my matted file fish.

Mel the wrasse has kept the bristle worms virtually undetectable in the DT. I know they're there. I find them regularly in the filter socks and sump, but I've never seen one in the tank even after lights out.

Punkin, the filefish was brought in to address an aptaisia issue. It took him a couple of months to figure out how tasty aptaisia is, but once he got it, I haven't seen one in over 2 years.

I gotta hand it to these guys. They do their jobs well.

 

[kittenbritches]

Sounds like Popeye, my melanurus wrasse, may start having something to do. I'm moving live rock into the tank this weekend, and I've definitely seen some bristle worms in there.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

My Cleaner Wrasse, hands down. Always is working on the fish, always finds me when my hand is in the tank.

 

[Spieg]

6-line wrasse by far... constantly inspecting rock/coral for pests.

 

[JGT]

My Bella goby. Sifts the sand in my 240 and keeps it pristine.

 

[blaxsun]

Next article should be laziest a**hat fish in your tank, aka: "Why did I spent $100 on this dumb a** fish?"

 

[PeterC99]

Next article should be laziest a**hat fish in your tank, aka: "Why did I spent $100 on this dumb a** fish?"

Very funny!!!

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Next article should be laziest a**hat fish in your tank, aka: "Why did I spent $100 on this dumb a** fish?"

All of them, not like they pay the electric bill or anything

 

[blaxsun]

All of them, not like they pay the electric bill or anything

I'd nominate my midas blenny. He spends about 23/24 hours in his barnacle, only coming out to feed. He sits there in his 'porch' and wards off any fish that venture close with a "Get off my lawn!" menace.

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

I personally like the yellow eyed kole tang. They are a great worker fish that keeps your take clean

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

I'd nominate my midas blenny. He spends about 23/24 hours in his barnacle, only coming out to feed. He sits there in his 'porch' and wards off any fish that venture close with a "Get off my lawn!" menace.

Well if I have to pick one, we will go with my Long Nose Hawkfish. He does NOTHING except sit on his perch and stare. Also attempts to firebomb any and all shrimp when he has the chance.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Will you count crustaceans? If so, the pistol shrimp in my 20g who is the equivalent of a bulldozer or my spider conch in my 110g who goes nonstop like a street sweeper in Philly