Reef Safe With Caution Fish (best and worst)

[davidcalgary29]

My fire urchin lunched on a lovely feather duster, and I found my purple porcelain crab eating the remains of a sand-sifting goby.

#NOT-so-safe-inverts

 

[Koty]

Had two moorish idols. RSWC? Would turn my tank into a sad FOWLR in days

 

[Sleepingtiger]

My fire urchin lunched on a lovely feather duster, and I found my purple porcelain crab eating the remains of a sand-sifting goby.

#NOT-so-safe-inverts

did the porcelain crab kill the goby?

 

[Sleepingtiger]

Had two moorish idols. RSWC? Would turn my tank into a sad FOWLR in days

for about 3 months, i had a morish idol in my sps tank. It didn't bother them much.

 

[davidcalgary29]

did the porcelain crab kill the goby?

It's possible, although I have no direct evidence. P. galathinus has formidable claws, unlike many other members of Petrolithses seen in the aquarium trade. They're certainly not just filter feeders.

 

[Paris by Night]

I have a few of these in my mixed reef.

My Copperband butterfly has been a good fish so far, he eats frozen mysis and no corals so far...

Then I have a coral beauty from biota, which is too small for anything at the moment haha. We'll see what happens.

Then there's the blatantly not reef safe choice... I got a tassled filefish when he was very small. He is three or four times the size when we got him, and he's actually not bothered anything (knocking very hard on wood right now). I love that fish so much -- super fascinating, very underrated fish.

Thread revive: How is the coral beauty so far; any nippage? I am planning on getting an angel of some type for my upgrade.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Curious about more of these fish!