40 gallon

[trigger929]

Hi i recently stopped keeping saltwater fish because of a stupid idea i had that ended up being fatal i went to the beach and got some clams which killed my tank well i put the tank out side for alil while and now i would like to set it up again im wondering if i can do this in 8 months im going to purchase a 500 gallon aqarium but i was wondering if i can put these fish in there in the mean time a piccaso trigger a clown trigger a porcupine puffer a snowflake eel and a tesselata eel of course this will only be temperary because i will move them very soon another thing is i would like 2 put live sand but not live rock would this make it harder for my fish to live would they possibly die alot easier in the tank right now i have a marine land emperor the big one and also im getting a couple of power heads and a b ig sea clone protien skimmer will this be ok for 8 months. the reason i dont want to just wait is there is some beautiful specimens of this fish at my lfs but they are in my mind going to die soon if not taking out they are in about 7 gallons of water each and even tho they are about 3inchs a piece except the tesseleta who is about 4inchs. They i think are going to run out of room 2 quick and this store does not have to many customers so i doubt there gonna be sold quick enough. Well thanks any advice is welcomed i also will put lots of false corals and stuff like that for the fish to hide i just dont particularly like the look of live rock.

 

[trigger929]

Well have been thinking about it and decided i just would like a tesseleta eel and a porcupine puffer will this work or will the puff be lunch. also wat is a better protien skimmer a red sea prizm skimmer or a sea clone skimer???? thanks for any replys

 

[clowntrigger2k]

IN A TANK THAT BIG YOU COULD PUT MORE THAN JUST A TESS EEL AND A PUFFER YOU COULD DO A CLOWNTRIGGER TOO THATS MORE THAN ENOUGH ROOM ,GOOD LUCK

 

[sistrmary]

I've never tried it, but I can't see it being good. Mixing the puffer and the trigger. Mind you I have no experience with triggers, imo the chance of them turning evil and killing everything, or scraping their teeth on the glass or biting the heater tubing isn't worth it...I can't get passed it. I love how they look, but their personality is a bit much for me.
But, I do know porcupine puffers very well. (I've wanted one since the first time I saw one, as a poor, ghetto kidlet with absolutely no chance in hell of operating a saltwater tank in the next ten years. So I read anything I could find on them and now I own one magnificent specimen) I know that they're very passively aggressive. They feel like everything in that tank should just *know* that it owns them. Yaknow what I mean? Arrogant (If a fish can be arrogant lol) but from what I've heard/read about triggers, the clown especially, they're the same way, but have a lot better defense system than the porcupine pufffers. I think that if you by chance, got one of the crazy aggressive triggers, you'd have at least a dead puffer on your hands.
Mind you, this is totally just my opinion, but I really think it would end in one of their deaths.

 

[sistrmary]

A 500gal aquarium is too small?