agresivfishguy
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Hi, I just got a 125 gallon fish tank. I was wondering what aggressive fish can I keep in my tank? What will they eat? Thankyou.
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topfish
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First, Welcome to the Board!
What substrate do you have? If you didn't get anything I would get gravel, live sand is not good for triggerfish, because when the triggerfish try to move the sand with there mouths the sand may get caught in there gills, which then can kill them. Before adding fish make sure your cycle is done. That means nitrites, ammonia, nitrates are around 0 on a test kit. Now if you have gravel, I would say you can get triggerfish(blue jaw, pink tail, huma, assasi, bursa, or other smaller size triggerfish), an antenata lionfish (or radiata, or dwarf), a harlequin tusk, and an eel(snowflake, chainlink, or zebra). These fish are all meat eaters, they eat krill, mysis, brine, squid, and other meaty foods. The triggerfish and the tusk will eat flake food. For the eel, you should buy a feeder stick, so your eel doesn't get in the habit of eating food on the top. Whats wrong with that you ask? Eels, are jumpers, they are escape artist, when they think food is around the top, they'll go to the top, and might jump out of your tank.
What substrate do you have? If you didn't get anything I would get gravel, live sand is not good for triggerfish, because when the triggerfish try to move the sand with there mouths the sand may get caught in there gills, which then can kill them. Before adding fish make sure your cycle is done. That means nitrites, ammonia, nitrates are around 0 on a test kit. Now if you have gravel, I would say you can get triggerfish(blue jaw, pink tail, huma, assasi, bursa, or other smaller size triggerfish), an antenata lionfish (or radiata, or dwarf), a harlequin tusk, and an eel(snowflake, chainlink, or zebra). These fish are all meat eaters, they eat krill, mysis, brine, squid, and other meaty foods. The triggerfish and the tusk will eat flake food. For the eel, you should buy a feeder stick, so your eel doesn't get in the habit of eating food on the top. Whats wrong with that you ask? Eels, are jumpers, they are escape artist, when they think food is around the top, they'll go to the top, and might jump out of your tank.
justchillin
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i assume you mean crushed coral not gravel...
as far as the sand killing triggers i've never heard of that and in fact have never heard of any problems with a dsb setup with triggers or other aggressive fish unless there is a filtration problem due to overloading...
i personally feel that a dsb is a huge asset to any tank for bio-filtration reasons, and as long as you don't overload your tank it works great along with LR and a good skimmer...
as far as the sand killing triggers i've never heard of that and in fact have never heard of any problems with a dsb setup with triggers or other aggressive fish unless there is a filtration problem due to overloading...
i personally feel that a dsb is a huge asset to any tank for bio-filtration reasons, and as long as you don't overload your tank it works great along with LR and a good skimmer...
trigahappynigerog
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hey top i thought you had ls in your tank???
i got aragonite ls in my tank right now and my triggers dig at it everytime. i also put a couple pieces of cc that he picks up and places everywhere.. i think they try too look for food or something. i put the cc on accident i thought it would be cool if i mixed it. BAD IDEA. i tryed to get most of it out but couldnt. keeps the triggers busy though.
i got aragonite ls in my tank right now and my triggers dig at it everytime. i also put a couple pieces of cc that he picks up and places everywhere.. i think they try too look for food or something. i put the cc on accident i thought it would be cool if i mixed it. BAD IDEA. i tryed to get most of it out but couldnt. keeps the triggers busy though.
mark-24
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Welcome to the board, and I have a 135 gallon tank that currently has a snowflake eel, and an antennatta lion, but I will add a harlequin tusk, foxface lo, and a humu humu trigger. My tank will be pretty full, but I have really nice filtration (40 lbs ls, 150lbs southdown sand, 100 lbs lr, wet/dry, Marine Tech Pro-6500 skimmer, and a SEN900 return pump) You can check out the pix of my tank, just click on the house by my name. I'll get some more pictures up as soon as we get our digital camera back from being repaired.
-Mark
-Mark