Zoa Frag Tank Fish

[shrimped]

Hello. I have a 60g Cube (2’x2’x2’) as a zoa dominated frag tank. I currently have a few trochus snails, florida ceriths and a tomini tang. I heard four line wrasses and melanurus wrasses are good for pests. What are other good suggestions for fish that can take care of pests?

 

[Whispers]

Yellow Coris wrasse

 

[shrimped]

Yellow Coris wrasse

ty for the suggestion

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Yellow Coris wrasse

I second this. Love these guys. Also if you have any small algae patches on plugs or whatnot, rainfords gobies are a great addition.

 

[nereefpat]

Six line, 4 line, and cousins are perfect for this.

The Halichoeres wrasses get a little big, in my opinion. They also need sand.

 

[Pbh-reef]

If you want a more peaceful fish than sixline and it’s relatives but don’t want sand in the tank consider pink streaked and possum wrasses. Springer and azure damsels also work for pest control, as can scooter blennies and dragon face pipefish if the tank has lots of pods to keep them fed as well.

For pest enemies you’ll probably need to be diligent and use manual removal, I wouldn’t trust an aptaisa eating filefish with zoas (although you might try on and get lucky) and the tank is too small for a copperband butterfly.

 

[shrimped]

thank you for all the suggestions! i’ll definitely look into em some more