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Foxface placement advice requested

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sfsuphysics

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Ok so I have a foxface rabbitfish currently in my 100g tank (72" x 18" x 18") , however I'm very shortly moving stuff over to a 75 gallon tank (32" x 24" x 24"), really it's an 80... but the overflow takes about 5 gallons out of the tank swimming area.

I have this feeling that it is really ill-suited for a tank of this size, even though a lot of places have the minimum size at 70g (I really do take those numbers with a grain of salt). Am I just being overly cautious?

Ideally I'd love to toss him in my 180g (48" x 36" x 24") HOWEVER I have another rabbitfish in there, Siganus virgatus (or something similar in shape), and I'm worried about the potential brouhaha that I've read about keeping multiple rabbitfish in the same tank. Again am I being overly cautious?

I'd really like to keep the foxface if possible as he is quite the algae killing machine, but I just don't know.

Thanks in advance.
 
Which two do you have again? A magnificent and what else? regular yellow foxface?

See I was thinking maybe due to the shape between the vulpinus and the virgatus I MIGHT get away with it.
 
Yes a magnificent and a black spot. Again to my knowledge they aren't supposed to get along, they just do. It could be that I introduced them at the same time? I have a big tank but they seem to hang out together all the time.
 
I have a 240 gallon that would love to have him as a resident if you decide not to put him in with your other one. ;)
 
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