What is your favorite fish to keep in a frag tank?

[Daniel@R2R]

What do you think is the best fish for a frag tank? Wrasse? Tang? Clownfish? Blenny? Butterfly? I've seen all of these in frag tanks, but let's determine what is the best choice.

Please vote in the poll above and give us your reason in the thread here.

 

[Pongo]

I wanted to vote wrasse AND tang. One for bugs, one for algae.

 

[PDR]

IMO you really need both an algae eater (tang if size permits, blenny if a smaller tank) and a wrasse for pests. I guess if I had to pick one, it would be an algae eater, preferably a tang.

 

[andrewkw]

My vote is none. That way it can double as a qt. If I was going to put fish in my frag tank I'd probably periodically swap out mollys who have no immunity to marine disease.

 

[Crabs McJones]

I voted tangs. They're constant algae grazers, and nothing is more unappealing (other than pests) is sharing a picture of a frag infested with algae.

 

[sfin52]

Wrasse for pests and mollies for algea

 

[MTBake]

I voted tang for eating algae. A Wrasse or 3 would be in mine as well.

And since this came up, do mollies really eat marine algae? Never researched this to be honest. I'll be doing some ;Bookworm for sure

 

[Niterunner77]

I vote for a wrasse. I would love to have a tang also but my 24x24x12 30G cube frag tank isn’t large enough for one. So I have a wrasse to get rid of any pests on my frags. Can’t use the frag tank as a quarantine either because it’s plumbed into my main system.

 

[fermentedhiker]

Wrasse for pests and if snails couldn't take care of the algae definitely mollies.

 

[Reefing-Around]

Have to stick with a kritter gitter... I can see algae and know I need to make some adjustment. Bugs can be there and you may not even know before its too late.. Wrasse wins in my book.

But I would have to sneak a tang in as well!!

 

[Vin's Reef]

I vote for a wrasse. I would love to have a tang also but my 24x24x12 30G cube frag tank isn’t large enough for one. So I have a wrasse to get rid of any pests on my frags. Can’t use the frag tank as a quarantine either because it’s plumbed into my main system.

Dude I have the same exact set up and tank sizes and the same lights but I just added the aquatic life T5 fixture and it's made a big difference.

 

[cracker]

I don't have a frag tank but I wiul think a wrasse for pests & tang for Algae Or snails would be good IMO ' Good to see Md posting polls again always a good topic !

 

[Amado]

This is crazy I just purchased two black mollies for my frag tank. I had an Atlantic tang that got to big for my 20gallon long frank tank.

 

[Jolliolli]

I purchased a canary wrasse for my zoa frag tank. Unfortunately it managed to jump through a gap in the lid and was toast. I purchased it to try and get on top of a zoa eating nudibranch problem but it didn’t seem to do much. I’ve got another canary and a six line arriving in a couple of days so I’m hoping one of them might help

 

[wheelman76]

Could someone please post a link or picture of this molly fish that many are talking about ? They are good for eating algae ?

 

[sfin52]

Regular run of the mill black mollies sold at any lfs. They are sold in fresh water but can be converted to sw. They are a brackish water fish found in South America.

 

[wheelman76]

Thank you

 

[Sallstrom]

We've used Ctenochaetus tangs in most our propagation tanks(and display tanks) with great results. For algae.
And filefish for Aiptasia, a rabbitfish for Valonia and a wrasse or two for flatworms etc

 

[doughboy]

at LFS, I always see the teeny tiny yellow tangs in the shallow frag tanks.

 

[sfin52]

Thank you

Your welcome. Just don't tell Petco or PetSmart you are going to throw into a sw tank. They go bonkers at least mine did.