Coral Safe Fish To Eat Inverts?

[Myka]

Originally Posted by rastaangel

My tank has become over run with snails, crabs, and all other kinds of inverts. And I want them all gone!!! I pick them out daily but they keep coming back and there driving me nuts, the snails get caught in my glass magnet and scratch it up and they all get trapped and die in my SPS resulting in spots dieing off...

Exactly what kind of snails and crabs and "other inverts" are you talking about?

Btw, magnet cleaners suck. Even coralline caught in the magnet will scratch the glass. Use a scraper instead.

[reefgirl189]

Bag them up and send them to me - I could use some more troops in my CUC

[tang daddy]

As mentioned before the yellow canary would deal with snails, even better a melanarus wrasse will wipe out the snail population in great time, any crabs that venture out will be smacked against the rocks and eaten, great thing is when you want to catch the wrasse it takes 2 mins as they are fearless and love food. Just shove a piece of shrimp tied to a rock in a Fish trap and done!

[Reef Pilot]

I had a Green Bird Wrasse. It ate anything that crawled. And with it's long beak, was good at sucking critters out of holes in the rock. Didn't touch any of my corals. But you won't be able to keep any clams, shrimps, snails or crabs with this one.

[rastaangel]

What about coris wrasses? anyone got anything on them?

[Myka]

The Red Coris Wrasse grows over a foot long. The Yellow Coris Wrasse would pick at inverts a bit, but the Melanurus or Grey-Head Wrasses would be a better choice.

[lpsreefer]

It all depends on the fish. My melanairus wrasse only eats small snails. But so does my sailfin. I have a six wrasses in my tank and they all leave my big snails and hermits alone. None of the wrasse I have are reef safe. Oh but they do like to eat gorilla crabs.
I haven't tried a bird wrasse, but a trigger has my vote.