Will fish fight for cave space?

[Alpha_and_Gec]

I plan to keep a fair few fish that may occupy caves for extended periods of time(my reef light is god danged bright). Have anyone had experience with fishes fighting for cave space? My engineer goby is helping upscale the caves a bit, but I'm not sure still how many fish it can hold. I've not found any reports for cave competition occuring definitively, so I'm clueless on this regard. Territorial fish will still be territorial fish, but I'm excluding that as a factor as I cannot keep fish known to be highly aggressive anyways.

Thinking of a squirrelfish, a sand - sleeping wrasse, and maybe an eel, and I already have the engineer goby. I'm not sure if cardinals like caves but I'll have those too.

 

[blaxsun]

Usually if there's no cave to be found the fish will dig one out.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

Usually if there's no cave to be found the fish will dig one out.

Oh, good. My sand bed needs some scrambling anyways... the conch is awfully slow.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I plan to keep a fair few fish that may occupy caves for extended periods of time(my reef light is god danged bright). Have anyone had experience with fishes fighting for cave space? My engineer goby is helping upscale the caves a bit, but I'm not sure still how many fish it can hold. I've not found any reports for cave competition occuring definitively, so I'm clueless on this regard. Territorial fish will still be territorial fish, but I'm excluding that as a factor as I cannot keep fish known to be highly aggressive anyways.

Thinking of a squirrelfish, a sand - sleeping wrasse, and maybe an eel, and I already have the engineer goby. I'm not sure if cardinals like caves but I'll have those too.

Yes, they might squabble over territory until everyone gets settled

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

How big is your tank? assume you are stocking your tank according to the available space and rockwork, there should not be fighting if the tank is not overstocked....

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

How big is your tank? assume you are stocking your tank according to the available space and rockwork, there should not be fighting if the tank is not overstocked....

80 gal, although there is considerably less cave space than open waters.