Experience with sunrise dottybacks?

[BrianPlankis]

Anyone here have experience with sunrise dottybacks? I'm thinking about adding a pair of them (mated) to my 75 and I was wondering if anyone has seen them:

1. Eat featherdusters, horseshoe worms or christmas tree worms?

2. Nip at clams or corals?

3. Kill mantis shrimp?

Everything I've read so far is a maybe on #1 and #3 and no on #2.

Brian

 

[rich99rich]

You can have mine as soon as I catch him. Mine has just become too aggressive for my taste. Everything I've read about them states that this species is pretty laid back, and he was in the beginning, but he just goes after every new addition now.

I have clams and corals, and he doesn't touch it. As far as #1 and #3, I couldn't tell you because I don't have them.

 

[BrianPlankis]

Rich,

Thanks for the feedback. These fish will be the last addition to my tank, so hopefully they won't cause any problems

Brian

EDIT: Hopefully someone else can chime in about #1 and #3.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

I have one in my 125 gallon reef.

I have never seen him harm anything, inverts include, peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp, pistol shrimp, emerald crabs, assorted hemits and snails.

Coral include sps, lps, soft, zoos ands shrooms, clams as well. I have never seen him so much as look at a coral.

Other fish include, clarki clowns, sailfin tang, orange striped cardinal, and an arorua goby.

I have never seen him bother any of the other fish, with the exception of the goby, who will flare up at him whenever he gets near.

Mine spends a lot of time in the rock work, swimming around and through it. He is easy to find though, and does not hide in the rock.

I feed brine, and pellets, which he takes both.

I have had this one for about 1 year.

 

[BrianPlankis]

Jeremy,

Thanks for the info. Do you have any featherdusters, horseshoe worms or christmas tree worms in your tank? If so, does he eat them?

Brian

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

I have many small hitchhicker tube worms, in the rock as well as some that poke out of the sand, spegetti worms and such. And no, he is not interested in them.