24 hours after adding my rabbitfish...

[afex]

and my dictyota problem is almost all gone! this guy is an eating machine.

i had never seen that kind of algae before, but it came in with a frag i got. it was spreading like wildfire even tho my params were good and i run a fuge + phosban.

useful and not too bad to look at either

 

[Speckled Grouper]

I had the same problem. Dictyota overtaking my prop tank. Added the Rabbit and it's gone

 

[kryppy]

The dictoyota eating machine!

 

[techreef]

great looking rabbits, you two!

 

[bureau13]

What species of rabbitfish is that? I almost bought one the other day, but I was worried about eventual size, the fact that some say they will start grazing on coral after the algae is gone, etc. Great looking fish though.

jds

 

[listingbuddy]

DOLIATUS RABBITFISH

 

[King-Kong]

that is a Siganus Doliatus. Absolutely awesome at eating nuissance algaes. I had a hybrid Doliatus/Virgatus, and he ate all of my bryopsis, and taught my Purple Tang to eat it, too!

 

[Tang Salad]

Yeah, beautiful!

Are they known to eat other kinds of algae too?

 

[bureau13]

I have some funky hair algae that is choking out my candycanes, and nothing else. I am not sure what it is, maybe derbasia? My tangs got rid of all the caulerpa, but won't touch this stuff. I wonder if this guy would do it? I get a huge dark green hair algae afro on these candycanes if I don't prune it regularly.

jds

 

[usmcsgt]

thats my favorite rabbit

 

[bureau13]

And none of you that have one have had a problem with it eating zoanthids or anything else that you don't want it eating?

jds

 

[afex]

i'm going to keep a lookout, but since i pretty much only keep SPS i'm not too worried about him picking at my corals.

either way i'm gonna make sure to keep him well fed with the macro i grow in my fuge

 

[usmcsgt]

they are not known for eating zoos

 

[cyslyde]

I just saw one of these in a LFS and was wondering about them. do you think they will eat star polyps?

 

[kryppy]

My guy lives in a frag tank with a bunch of zoas and some SPS. He has never touched any yet. He loves the yuck brown algae, nori, mysis and blood worms.

If he got hungry, well who knows.

 

[samson78945]

im really digging these fish..i might have to check them out for myself!

 

[supervdl]

beautiful rabbitfish - would love to have one in my mixed reef

 

[fighton03]

afex,
What other fish do you have in the tank with it? Where did you purchase the fish? (I'm just easts of Houston)

 

[TWallace]

I may give one of them a try for my bryopsis problem. I've yet to find anything that will eat it. I'm currently testing out a lawnmower blenny in my QT with some bryopsis in it. So far, he's not touching the stuff. I know the rabbit would eventually outgrow my 55, but I can just sell it locally if it ends my bryopsis problem.

 

[rudezuk]

My scribbled is one of my favorite fish too!!