I am re-posting this in this forum. I originally posted it in the reef fish forum, but was advised that I could get more helpful advise here concerning the health of my future clam(s).
I am looking to add a wrass to my 125g system, in order to control those tiny clam-eating snails, with a plan to add a clam later. I know I have those tiny snails in my system because I see them at night. These tiny b@stards are hard to eradicate manually.
Which kind will do this primary job, without being:
1) too aggressive;
2) harm to my LPS corals (torch, hammer, fungia, brain);
3) too finicky to feed other foods;
I know the yellow coris wrass will do such a job, in addition to controlling flat worms. But it has a habit of jumping and sleeping in sand, stiring up sediment. The primary worry being that its digging activities will irritate my sand dwelling LPS corals.
The sixline might also do such a job, but from what I gathered, it is pretty aggressive.
The eightline and fourline might seem good candidates, but these seem to be not very common and I haven't been able to find much info about them.
Any other fish(es) or inverts will help control such snails? The peppermint shrimp has been mentioned, but will it fight with my present blood/fire shrimp and will the peppermint harm my other corals?
Will these wrasses also harm my pods population because I also intend to add a mandarin to my system and don't want extra food competition.
Thanks in advance.
I am looking to add a wrass to my 125g system, in order to control those tiny clam-eating snails, with a plan to add a clam later. I know I have those tiny snails in my system because I see them at night. These tiny b@stards are hard to eradicate manually.
Which kind will do this primary job, without being:
1) too aggressive;
2) harm to my LPS corals (torch, hammer, fungia, brain);
3) too finicky to feed other foods;
I know the yellow coris wrass will do such a job, in addition to controlling flat worms. But it has a habit of jumping and sleeping in sand, stiring up sediment. The primary worry being that its digging activities will irritate my sand dwelling LPS corals.
The sixline might also do such a job, but from what I gathered, it is pretty aggressive.
The eightline and fourline might seem good candidates, but these seem to be not very common and I haven't been able to find much info about them.
Any other fish(es) or inverts will help control such snails? The peppermint shrimp has been mentioned, but will it fight with my present blood/fire shrimp and will the peppermint harm my other corals?
Will these wrasses also harm my pods population because I also intend to add a mandarin to my system and don't want extra food competition.
Thanks in advance.
