Two Barred Rabbitfish vs. GHA...

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  1. 4phish

    4phish Montipora Digitata

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    I bought a Two Barred Rabbit about a week and a half ago and it has totally kicked my GHA! I couldn't have GHA in my tank if I wanted it. What an amazing fish. It is not often you find a fish this bueatiful that takes care of a GHA bloom.
     
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  3. 4phish

    4phish Montipora Digitata

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    stepho Panda Puffer

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    I had a gold spotted rabbit fish that simply destroyed GHA. Fish was a beast at eating it... unfortunately when the GHA was gone he developed a taste for GSP
     
  5. horkn

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    Be careful. Many rabbitfish will eat corals in a reef tank. The only ones I have had success with not eating corals is the foxface type of rabbitfish.
     
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    If the only coral it wate was GSP, then you were lucky.

    I have seen several rabbitfish devour brains , acans and other nice LPS.
     
  7. stepho

    stepho Panda Puffer

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    I don't have very many corals so his choices were limited. At the time it was basically GSP, xenia, or mushrooms. He devoured the GSP and left everything else alone.*

    *well I give him most of the credit. I did see him munching on the corals on several occasions but I also discovered a sundial snail later. I don't know when the sundial snail came along so it could have helped.