Replacement for my Foxface Rabbitfish

[jharding08]

I am looking for a replacement fish for my recently deceased foxface rabbitfish that was the second largest fish in the tank, next to the boss of the tank, the sailfin tang. The tank is 120 gallons (48"x24"x24") with three live rock pillars and plenty of swim room. It also houses a medium size yellow eye kole tang, a misbar ocellaris clown, a flame angel, a leopard wrasse, two blue green chromis and a mandarin dragonet.

I want to get more chromis to make it an odd number, but was thinking of another yellow medium to large fish to replace the foxface.

I was thinking of a yellow tang, but two zebrasoma much less two (make that three) tangs would cause aggression right?

Any other yellow large fish that look nice (and maybe eat seaweed)?

 

[jharding08]

You can see his size in this FTS

 

[michellejy]

I had a Magnificent Foxface and a Copperband Butterfly in my 120 gallon. I know the Copperband is somewhat common in the butterfly world, but it is a beautiful fish that was always swimming through every part of the tank.

I didn't have tangs though, so I don't know if there would be any potential aggression between them.

 

[brett559]

I agree that some yellow would look nice in there.

Yellow coris wrasse, regal angel, goldflake angel, flagfin angel, bicolor angel.

 

[jharding08]

I have a flame angel and am lucky that he is reef safe, are the regal/gold flake and bi color angels reef safe and aggressive towards each other?

Isnt a copperband butterfly not reef safe?

 

[michellejy]

I have a flame angel and am lucky that he is reef safe, are the regal/gold flake and bi color angels reef safe and aggressive towards each other?

Isnt a copperband butterfly not reef safe?

Mine never bothered anything aside from eating aiptasia.

 

[jharding08]

Would having two zebrasoma in a 120 gallon tank be a recipe for disaster, even with the current tenant Sailfin Tang being much bigger than the new entry yellow tang?

 

[Silly clownfish]

Any reason you don't want anoher foxface?

If you are willing to chance a not totally reef safe fish like angels or butterflies, I think the lemon betterfly is pretty, but I have never owned one.

 

[bjolly]

yellow longnose butterfly. Used to have one. It was my favorite fish, active, peaceful, and as a bonus, it ate aiptasia.

 

[jharding08]

I wound up getting 4 Bartlett anthias. They are decent sized fish and look beautiful.

Unfortunately as soon as I put them in my tank after an hour of acclimation my clown fish terrorized them non stop. I was able to finally net him last night and separate him so hopefully the anthias aren't too stressed. This morning there are three hanging out in the corner and one in a real good hiding spot in the live rock.

My question is, can I put that clownfish back in later at all? I have another tank with just two black and white ocellaris, will he pick on them too? Or should I just see if the LFS will take him?

 

[jharding08]

Well those anthias either disappeared or died so its back to searching or leaving the tank as is.

Could I get an Acanthurus or Paracanthurus tang, since I have Zebrasoma and Ctenochaetus.

I would have to make sure it was smaller than the existing tangs.