Scutus sp.

That one is in my tank and it does eat coraline algae as well as normal algae, it does not bother me a bit, as he is so cool. Steve

They are really cool, and get pretty big. I have had them for years, they multiply like crazy. But when I tried to sell them to a LFS, they looked them up, and are officially not reef safe. I have never had any problems at all, but they didn't want them. Even my mantis shrimp leaves them alone. Note also that Prof. Deborah Donovan at Western Washington University is one of the world's experts on these, and was excited that there may be some available locally for her research. Otherwise, she has to go to Australia!

hey i have two or three in both of my tanks and the don't bother anythiing. they eat alot of alage. i think they are very cool. i have read that they are not reef safe. my 30 gallon tank has only soft coral my 125 gallon has soft and hard. i think they are fine too have in reef tanks. but don't take my work. thanks reefman069

Where did you find that critter?

i got a bunch ithis spring on some live rock shipped from fiji i have bot soft and hard corals and they are all seeming to do well so my guess is we can do like gorge bush and take them off the books of the axis of eveil and they no longer need to be concider terrist of the reef

one thing i have noticed if things arent going in the tank wright they are aout and about feed ing on the alage some things wgoing wrong in the water chemistry or temp is getting to high they seem to me more like the reefers cannery