Looking for an algae grazing fish...

[sixline]

I'm looking for a fish that meets these requirements:

1) Eats a variety of algae
2) Reef safe
3) Fits in a 100g display tank
4) Easy to care for and hardy
5) Gets along with clownfish, lawnmower blenny, and royal gramma

It seems most tangs don't fit #3 and #4, most foxfaces don't fit #3, and most dwarf angels don't fit #2. Is this right?

I'm thinking about a Kole tang, but I think they just eat a very specific kind of algae, and my lawnmower blenny already eats that sort.

Anything I'm missing?

 

[WvAquatics]

Mollies. Just an option

 

[kyleinpdx]

What are the dimensions of the tank? You are not as limited on tangs as some people may believe, but that also doesn’t mean be reckless.

 

[sixline]

What are the dimensions of the tank? You are not as limited on tangs as some people may believe, but that also doesn’t mean be reckless.

41" long x 27.5″ deep x 25” high.

 

[Sheripie]

Tomini tAng, kole eye tang they are quite small

 

[Backreefing]

Your fine with a tang .

 

[Easy Reefing]

Lawnmower blenny , love mine and they eat algae all day

 

[bblumberg]

foxface will be fine. Also don't forget snails and hermits.

 

[DungSl1nger]

I second the Lawnmower Blenny suggestion. Mine is a workhorse. I have a coral beauty that has been doing a good job on GHA, she has not messed with my corals as of yet.

 

[bblumberg]

I inferred from the list of characteristics that OP already had a lawnmower blennie. I don't know how well multiples do together....

 

[boacvh]

One spot foxface.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Tang all day, yellow, Cole, or sailfin...and get a good sized CUC

 

[DungSl1nger]

I guess it's time to put my contacts in

 

[Haydn]

I inferred from the list of characteristics that OP already had a lawnmower blennie. I don't know how well multiples do together....

They don't I tried.

Molly Miller blenny- tank bred, real characters, you can add a couple with no problems. Won't grow too big and aren't poop machines like tangs.

 

[TrishK]

Wish our LB was a workhorse. Only time he does his job is when he’s eaten all the tangs nori and algae sheets He’s funny as hell though and he’s one of our favorites

 

[av8soulfly]

tomini tang, fox face, emerald crab

 

[DungSl1nger]

Wish our LB was a workhorse. Only time he does his job is when he’s eaten all the tangs nori and algae sheets He’s funny as hell though and he’s one of our favorites ❤

Mine won’t touch anything else. No algae sheets, wafers, nothing. He just swims around eating the algae of glass, wave makers and rock.

 

[HB AL]

Yellow and purple tangs, 1 of each, they spend all day cleaning my rocks.

 

[BighohoReef]

I have a 100g and a Kole AND a LM Blenny... my wife wants to add a blue tang and that's where I had to draw the line

 

[Chewbacca]

I have acclimated a marble molly from brackish water from lps ( local pet shop)
Over a 5 hour period now at salinity of 1.026 for over a year the Molly loves the algae of all types but red hair. You will never see a fatty molly like that from eating algae. It gets along great with every fish and is reef safe best transformation I can say works great.