Foxface or kole tang

[BluTang85]

Hey guys, I have a frag tank hooked into my reef, Im looking for something to keep it clean, i have some algae growing on the frag rack and my clean up crew/starry blenny doesn’t touch it, I had a small powder brown in there till he got to big and I moved him to my reef. I figured a 2” fish is perfect for my 36 x 24 x 12 frag tank. Please give me ur insight, or anything else recommended.

 

[fishguy242]

hi ,do not think foxy going to do job you need,kole ,atlantic blue,convict,all good pickers

 

[BluTang85]

Yea I figured the smaller tangs work well, I have read that Fox faces really clean a tank too

 

[Waters]

I have had both recently and the Foxface has done a much better job. The Kole would mainly just rasp at the encrusting stuff while the FoxFace would pick at everything.

 

[Qasimja]

my foxface picks at everything even my brains and acans to death lol now i can no longer have those

 

[lilkiwi930]

So I have both a Kole Tang and a Fox Face in the same tank. Thankfully I do not deal with any aggression. They get along perfectly.

But if I had to choose one for there cleaning expertise, it would all depend on the type of algae you have.

My fox face did wonders on the bubble algae. I no longer have a bubble algae problem. As for my kole tang, he did wonders on my rocks with hair algae and other little stuff as well. Including the kole tang attempts to clean of my glass well.

But I got both and love them both.

 

[ApoIsland]

Hey guys, I have a frag tank hooked into my reef, Im looking for something to keep it clean, i have some algae growing on the frag rack and my clean up crew/starry blenny doesn’t touch it, I had a small powder brown in there till he got to big and I moved him to my reef. I figured a 2” fish is perfect for my 36 x 24 x 12 frag tank. Please give me ur insight, or anything else recommended.

Depending on how much you feed that foxface it will most likely outgrow the tank within a couple years. Kole should be fine forever in that 36'' tank but I'm not sure he will eat the hair algae. They are film algae eaters. Maybe he can keep it clean if you scrape the hair algae down to a tiny nub but I doubt it.

edit...since they are both very popular and would be easy to give away, I would get them both and never worry about having a spec of algae in that tank . But that's just me. I have never worried about giving a fish away when it gets big or I end up not liking it. Can usually trade them to a local reefer for a coral frag or two.

 

[FangsAndGames]

I have a whiteail and a magnifecent in a 5 footer. No issues, get both they will establish territory and together they will eat the algae the other does not.

 

[ApoIsland]

I have a whiteail and a magnifecent in a 5 footer. No issues, get both they will establish territory and together they will eat the algae the other does not.

The white tail bristletooth is one of my dream tangs. Will gladly swap out the Kole for that fish when I get the chance.

 

[FangsAndGames]

The white tail bristletooth is one of my dream tangs. Will gladly swap out the Kole for that fish when I get the chance.

Hard to be patient with money!

 

[FangsAndGames]

My magnificent is the biggest wuss. He is the second biggest fish in the tank apart from my niger trigger (my pfp). He's always in camo and gets pushed around sometimes for the nori sheet I feed my tangs.

 

[FangsAndGames]

Check out marine collectors. Only place i'll buy fish from now on online.

 

[rwreef]

My kole tang picks at everything all day long. I vote Kole tang.

 

[FangsAndGames]

I spoiled mine with Nori

 

[Fonn]

I would go with fox face if you have bubble and hair algae, and kole if you have slime algae on glass panes and/or on rocks. A combo of both would do wonder.

 

[BluTang85]

The white tail bristletooth is one of my dream tangs. Will gladly swap out the Kole for that fish when I get the chance.

I have a nice 6” white tail bristletooth tang in my reef, he’s a vaccum cleaner lol. He keeps my reef spotless

 

[BluTang85]

Hard to be patient with money!

You ain’t kiddin

 

[BluTang85]

Check out marine collectors. Only place i'll buy fish from now on online.

I will look into them, thanks.

 

[BluTang85]

You guys are awesome, thanks for all the feed back. I may just do both and give them away if they out grow it.

 

[BluTang85]

Or just throw them in the reef.