What is your favorite 'utility' reef safe fish?

4FordFamily · May 25, 2016

Halichoeres genus wrasse (melanarus, lime green, Christmas, vroliks, yellow "coris", etc)

They eat lots of reef pests!

fiji4118 · May 25, 2016

+1 for lawnmower blenny. We always name ours Waldo as in the "where is waldo" books. They hide in plain sight very well

Jamesholt · May 25, 2016

My lawnmower blenny "Rocket", used to have a Magnificent Foxface also, forgot to cut the pumps connecting my two tanks back on after moving a tank around and killed him..

Maritimer · May 25, 2016

I've never kept a lawnmower, but delight in my starry blenny!

My tank's too small by far for a foxface, but there's a young kole tang in there who occasionally runs the Bryopsis through the comb of her teeth. She greatly prefers film algae over hairy types.

The target mandarin is forever going over the rock, and between her and the orange-back fairy wrasse, the flatworm and isopod populations that had built up so much while the system was fallow have been relegated to the sump and the depths of the pukani rock.

~Bruce