Hogfish Owners

[HiImSean]

I'm trying to decide between a yellow candy and peppermint hogfish. Both are available eating pellets/flakes/mysis at a LFS for the same price. I like the yellow candy a bit better, color wise but I'm thinking of getting a yellow coris wrasse to help with flatworms. I've heard both are fairly peaceful towards other fish but would the yellow candy be aggressive towards the wrasse being similar shape/color/size? I have no basis against the peppermint, kind of a back-up choice of fish for the tank. I see a lot of people now days with the yellow candy but not many with the peppermint so just looking for some input.

 

[Sigmund]

Peppermint can get a little bigger, mine got a little aggressive as he got older to some of my wrasses. Plus the peppermint will darken with time in your tank, not sure if it is diet or the bright lights but they all tend to lose the bright red to more of a brick red over time.

 

[lhm nole]

I had a candy hogfish in a 240 reef and he was a devil he killed every flasher wrasse I tried in the tank didnt mess with anthias and also had a peppermint hogfish in with him at the time tank was fully loaded with corals and rock didnt matter he would chase them to death.