do golden butterfly/pakistani butterfly eat mushrooms,zoos, star polyps, & crabs?

[Ironsheikh]

considering trying a couple butterflies or a fish only wrasse like the kenzigers wrasse, but i have some star polyps & zoos for color -not a full reef, just fishonly w/live rock and couple corals.

I wondered if these fish would go after my expensive holloween & electric hermits, emerald crabs, star polyps, zoos

 

[bigdee65]

When I changed over my FOWLR to a mixed reef I left my Pakastani butterfly in the tank for about 2 weeks before I pulled him out because he was eating my new corals. He destroyed a frogspawn first and then went after my green star polyps. I pulled him out before we went after anything else but I did have a few mushrooms, kenya tree, colt coral and a digi in there while he went after the other corals.

Thats all the experience I have with them but I hope that helps a little. If you are only trying to keep a few select corals then I think you might be able to get away with it but you might loose some during trial and error.

oh and my paki ate a cleaner shrimp while he was in there. Didn't bother any snails or small hermits.