Pakistan Butterflyfish (Chaetodon collare), coral nipper or coral killer?

[iamwhatiam52]

I'd love to try a Pakistan Butterflyfish (Chaetodon collare) and would not mind if it nipped corals like my Singapore angels do, but will they outright destroy my mixed up reef?

I know there are individual differences, but what is the general expected with these fish?

 

[SDguy]

Mine ate every smooth mushroom in the tank.

 

[denash24]

Do they eat zoa's? I need a fish that will mow some of my camo paly's and other assorted zoanthids.

 

[iamwhatiam52]

Mine ate every smooth mushroom in the tank.

That could be a good thing!

 

[SDguy]

Not when they were the last corals in the tank that the other butterflies and angels didn't eat :lol:

 

[iamwhatiam52]

How many threads have there been on these forums asking how to get rid of mushrooms?

Problem of course, is that if you get a fish that someone else said ate his prized mushrooms, yours will leave the shrooms alone and eat your acans.

 

[agreeive?fish]

if you want a coral killer it wont touch them. if ou want it to leave your corals alone it will destroy them . murphys law

other than that i dont have a clue as mine was kept in a fowlr until it mysteriously stopped eating