Best fish to eat zoanthids?

[fishfreak2009]

I'm looking for a fish to eat all the zoanthids in my tank. I do not want them in there anymore, and I don't want to frag my rocks (they look to nice and they are huge rocks). I only have mushrooms and zoanthids, so if it eats the mushrooms as well that really wouldn't bother me. I don't care what type of fish it is as long as it isn't huge, won't eat small fish (like sleeper gobies and fairy wrasses), and isn't venomous (so no rabbitfish).

Suggestions?

 

[anbosu]

How big is your tank?

 

[fishfreak2009]

187 gallons (60" long by 24" wide by 30" tall) with a 55 gallon refugium.

 

[LisaD]

I QT'd the fish I really care about in a a 55 gallon reef tank. My emperor angel ate every zoanthid in the tank. My dogface puffer finished off all 200+ shrooms.

 

[nanoreefer1000]

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/...25&s=ts&r=33&start=1&page_num=1&count=9&sar=1

 

[reefergeorge]

Dogface puffer, or any large angel. The puffer would be easier to catch again, but may eat smaller fish.

 

[fishfreak2009]

Dogface puffer, or any large angel. The puffer would be easier to catch again, but may eat smaller fish.

I don't think the puffer will work in my tank. I have a cleaner wrasse.

Also, a five foot tank is too small for most large angels.


I think I might try to pick up a threadfin butterfly and 2 heniochus (I already have a pearlscale thriving in quarantine), and some pygmy angels (I currently have a bicolor that's thriving in quarantine).