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dewayne

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also would a pork puffer and a clown trigger be compatible. if not, i could use input on fish compatible with either, preferably the clown trigger.
 

swtanks

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A 75 gallon tank is a bit small for the fish you listed.
Panther groupers grow very fast, eat anything that fits in their mouth and get over a foot long.
Porcupine puffers also get about a foot and are nippers.
Clown triggers can grow up to be terrors. They can be docile and then overnight decide to kill everything else in the tank.
To start I would go with the trigger and puffer. Get very small ones. Eventually you will have to move them to a larger tank. The grouper will grow too fast to even attempt IMO.
Make sure you have a good skimmer. These things are messy eaters and the water quality can go down rapidly.
 
triggers and puffers are known to fight eventually but there has been people that pulled it off. but in a 75 they will get on each others nerves sooner or later
 

guppie

Member
There is a couple schools of thought with puffers and triggers. There is alot of people on this board that say no never, and there are some that have made it work, I say it is a crap shoot. I and one that is takeing the crap shoot, I have a porky and dogface and a huma humu all in my 125. I started them all off at the same time and very small, let them grow up together. It has worked out well for the first year, and I know when the get older is when I got to worry. I had tried to seperate the two puffers before for about 2 weeks and both just laid around and did nothing, so I put them back together and they have been happy ever since. All 3 fish swim around the tank together, and the only time it gets crazy is at feeding time. I do not say to put the two of them together, you just have to be prepared to seperate them if things go south, I have been in this hobby for a long time, and I like to try different thing, this is one of them. Good Luck
 
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