can these fish live together

[manncoler]

i am wondering if i can keep a all theas fish togther in a 77gal.
Radiata lionfish medium size
blue throat trigger
dogface puffer- maybe a different kind not sure yet
thanks for your help

 

[jon321]

Id go for it. The puffer may have issues with crowding and aggression against the lion as it grows, but Ive seen it done with long term success. Anything you might be interested in switching out the puffer for?
Jon

 

[manncoler]

i was also thinking a box fish or a tang or an angle fish

 

[sharkboy13]

id do a tang, chevron bristletooth or kole all work, the other tangs get to large

 

[nonphotosynt]

Trigger may chop fins of the lion - I had read horror stories about triggers and lions. Don't have the trigger, though, lion only.
Your tank is not too big - and lionfish and puffer will grow large - may be only one of them, and the other replace by a smaller fish?

 

[hatessushi]

The Blue throat should be fine. It is reef safe and one of the least aggressive of the Triggers.

 

[sharkboy13]

blue throats and sargassums r the safest, then pink throat and hawaiian black and young nigers, and then the rest of triggers.

 

[greenwolf52]

my niger and volitan get along just great. don't know about a puffer yet. definitely would not go with a box fish. those things can cause major problems.
i'd say by reading as many of these things as i have read, you should be pretty well set with the blue throat, the lion and a puffer.
good luck

 

[manncoler]

thanks everybody for yor help and i think i have i have made my choice now