Top Ten Worst Fish In A Reef

[Sk8r]

Ok, now to the whys...I had a ghost eel [var. of ribbon eel] eat 300.00 worth of fish.
I had a dottyback rival him in destructiveness and it took 2 weeks of hours a night to catch him. Cunning little beggar.
I have had angels take after coral.
Butterflies are partly hostile to coral and the other part won't eat.
False cleaner goby pretends to clean fish and then bites a piece off them.
Fairy wrasse: killed two of my gobies, and they swore that rascal was docile. [red filamented.] I've seen the Carpenters, however, get along beautifully in a 500g reef.

Seriously, it's all in balance of power---and tank size: my 54g tank is devoted to the littlest fishes, and a dottyback would be a tiger in a rabbit patch; a dottyback in a tank full of damsels will hold his own just fine and be fairly peaceful by comparison.

So peace to all who love them, and I'm kidding a bit: it's just in which balance you set your tank for.

 

[Peter Eichler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10769084#post10769084 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sk8r
Ok, now to the whys...I had a ghost eel [var. of ribbon eel] eat 300.00 worth of fish.
I had a dottyback rival him in destructiveness and it took 2 weeks of hours a night to catch him. Cunning little beggar.
I have had angels take after coral.
Butterflies are partly hostile to coral and the other part won't eat.
False cleaner goby pretends to clean fish and then bites a piece off them.
Fairy wrasse: killed two of my gobies, and they swore that rascal was docile. [red filamented.] I've seen the Carpenters, however, get along beautifully in a 500g reef.

Seriously, it's all in balance of power---and tank size: my 54g tank is devoted to the littlest fishes, and a dottyback would be a tiger in a rabbit patch; a dottyback in a tank full of damsels will hold his own just fine and be fairly peaceful by comparison.

So peace to all who love them, and I'm kidding a bit: it's just in which balance you set your tank for.

You're generalizing far too much when it comes to Dottybacks and Wrasses, some can be great some can be total bastards.

 

[salineh2o]

Thanks Sk8er ..

In your 40 years what would be the best way to trap the wrasse from hell.

Have you had any success?

 

[skirtchaser]

yellowhead sleeper goby - sand everywhere on your corals
sixline wrasse - terror

 

[SDguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10769198#post10769198 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by salineh2o
Thanks Sk8er ..

In your 40 years what would be the best way to trap the wrasse from hell.

Have you had any success?

I used a trap I bough at marine depot. So far I have caught every fish I needed to, including two wrasses. None took longer than 24hrs either.

 

[HBtank]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10769084#post10769084 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sk8r
Ok, now to the whys...I had a ghost eel [var. of ribbon eel] eat 300.00 worth of fish.
I had a dottyback rival him in destructiveness and it took 2 weeks of hours a night to catch him. Cunning little beggar.
I have had angels take after coral.
Butterflies are partly hostile to coral and the other part won't eat.
False cleaner goby pretends to clean fish and then bites a piece off them.
Fairy wrasse: killed two of my gobies, and they swore that rascal was docile. [red filamented.] I've seen the Carpenters, however, get along beautifully in a 500g reef.

Seriously, it's all in balance of power---and tank size: my 54g tank is devoted to the littlest fishes, and a dottyback would be a tiger in a rabbit patch; a dottyback in a tank full of damsels will hold his own just fine and be fairly peaceful by comparison.

So peace to all who love them, and I'm kidding a bit: it's just in which balance you set your tank for.

I don't get how a fairy wrasse killing another type of fish has anything to do with reef suitability, much less that it is kinda funny to be singling a fairy wrasse out for aggression, just toally opposite of their reputation and pretty anecdotal.

I think that really confuses the issue, and if anything you are trying to say they are not appropriate for a tank with small gobies, whether it is a reef tank or not is irrelevant.

 

[xtm]

Yellow Clown Goby... small but terrible

These will nip on your Acros all day, EVERYDAY. Non-stop. Expect to never see another polyp again.

I bought a pair years ago.. everyday they both rounded up EVERY SPS in my tank and "sampled" them. (You know like those people at Costco going around aisles eating food samples.. lol) many people can vouch for this behavior.

 

[aquarius77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10770222#post10770222 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xtm
Yellow Clown Goby... small but terrible

These will nip on your Acros all day, EVERYDAY. Non-stop. Expect to never see another polyp again.

I bought a pair years ago.. everyday they both rounded up EVERY SPS in my tank and "sampled" them. (You know like those people at Costco going around aisles eating food samples.. lol) many people can vouch for this behavior.

This is great info, i was considering one of these fish for an sps tank. Thank you.

 

[aquarius77]

Is that the same fish as a rusty goby?

 

[aastretch64]

My six line wrasse was a terror for a about a month when I was introducing new fish. But recently after destroying a royal gramma, and chasing my yellow watchman, he all of a sudden calmed down. Now the yellow watchman and 6 line get along, and the wrasse even bumps/swims next to my 2 ocellaris clowns. I have a feeling he thinks he is a clown fish. I keep trying to introduce one more fish...first a powder blue tang, then a royal gramma, then a flame angel...but it keeps coming back down to just my 4 originals.

Alex

 

[morbius18]

I have a neon/arabian dottyback who is terrible. He killed two damsels (domino and 3 stripe) and a lawnmower blenny. He rips apart featherdusters and rips the legs off of any kind of ornamental shrimp. I cannot catch him, so I stopped feeding the tank hoping that he will die, but he apparently can live off of pods and other life, But I have never seen a bristle worm. He is a beautiful fish, just the devil.

Yesterday I bought a Dwarf Fuzzy lionfish, hopefully he eats the dottyback.

 

[happyface888]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10770222#post10770222 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xtm
Yellow Clown Goby... small but terrible

These will nip on your Acros all day, EVERYDAY. Non-stop. Expect to never see another polyp again.

I bought a pair years ago.. everyday they both rounded up EVERY SPS in my tank and "sampled" them. (You know like those people at Costco going around aisles eating food samples.. lol) many people can vouch for this behavior.

Are all clown gobies the same? Even the green ones and the citron goby?

 

[Peter Eichler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10770543#post10770543 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyface888
Are all clown gobies the same? Even the green ones and the citron goby?

All of the gumdrop/clown gobies are known to nip at SPS. It's not a guaranteed thing, but I'd never add one to an SPS tank.

 

[PupChow]

6-lines = devil