Rabbit fish - reef tank experiences?

[chrissreef]

Anyone with + or - experience with rabbits in a reef? I'm looking at getting the following two for my 300g reef (in addition to 3 tangs)...

Blue Spot Rabbitfish
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/images/cc_siganus_doliatus_thurner_hof.jpg

Yellow Spot Rabbitfish
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1465+2674&pcatid=2674

Thanks!

 

[rydr119]

I have a 2-barred rabbit in my reef. Very peaceful with all the other fish. Doesn't pick at my clams, although I have seen it pick at my sps a few times a while ago, I just increased the amount of nori I feed daily and it has since stopped. Great fishes.

 

[falconut]

I had a Foxface a while back and it was fine with all of my corals. This includes zoas, LPS, SPS, softies, including Xenia and a clam.

I may be incorrect, but I thought you were only supposed to keep one rabbitfish per tank. But maybe your tank is big enough.

 

[cl2ysta1]

i vote no on both counts unless it is going to be sps only. they are not completly reef safe. go with a scribbled rabbitfish, or a foxface

 

[prugs]

I won't own another rabbit fish. Mine got a taste for zoos.

 

[JStorey]

I have had a foxface in my reef for about a year and a half with no issues at all.

 

[Bax]

My fox is totaly reeef safe IME.

My blue stripped rabbit .... not so much. Good with SPS. Shrooms, zoos = dinner.

 

[EpidemicScuzzy]

I had the blue spotted, scribbled, and a magnificent foxface together. They were fine with all types of corals, with each other, and with all the other fish.

 

[Conesus_Kid]

I've had a scribbled for the past 10 months with no coral nipping or aggression.

 

[Znut Reefer]

I had a fox face in my sps tank and after 4 to 5 yrs he decided he had a taste for acros. So had to go.

 

[rodeo klown]

I have a scribbled rabbitfish in my 70for about a year now. He;s just about outgrown the tank due to the fact that he eats his own weight in food on a dailt basis! Hasn't ever bothered any corals though.

 

[reifen]

the key is food they eat alot and grow fast

mine is a foxface well fed and well behaved

 

[Dog boy Dave]

I have six rabbit fish and foxfaces together in a 325 SPS tank. They haven't bothered the few ZOas that I have. Wish they would though. I do see them take the slime off of corals and they will sometimes take an entire branch tip of a stag into their mouth to get the slime. . No harm done though. They do pick at each other occasionally but no harm done as the tank is very large.

 

[Atomikk]

Magnificent Rabbitfish=great with sps, lps and zoos. Will clean your zoos from fungus. And I don't just mean eat the fungus...

 

[Red Sea Purple Tang]

I have a Mag Foxface and she's a model citizen. I've seen Prugs orange spot rabbit and that thing would eat your face in a very short time.