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jennln

jennln

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Not a reef per se, but if I wanted to add mushrooms and rics maybe just for a bit of color could I make it work? Right now the tank tenants include two triggers (clown & picasso), lunare wrasse, goldstriped maroon and a snowflake eel. From what I understand of all of these they are considered not "reef safe" purely because of the fact that they will go after inverts. So would, or could, the corals be okay?
 
jackri

jackri

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I would think so.
I also think a trigger/tang tank with sps would be cool though -- but I like my inverts too much.
 
salt210

salt210

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you could do what I am about to do to try it out. I am going to buy some of the cheaper corals to see if my fish will pic on them. I am going to try some xenia, shrooms and zoas. not all at once tho. probably in that order
 
ca161406

ca161406

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I have softies and LPS with my humu and puffers and i've only lost a long tentacle plate coral when i first started to add them.
like 4 months and everythings going well.
 
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rcreations

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I think with your current fish list, some softies like mushrooms, xenia and rics, even some zoas would work. I tried it in my tank but the dogface and queen angel ate them all.
 
small triggers

small triggers

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It should work, i have 4 triggers; a picasso, niger, clown and bluejaw; a lunare wrasse; a kole tang & 2x GSM. No problems, i have about 30 mushrooms, a large yuma(?), xenia, frogspawn. I will try to attach a pic of mine. they all do fine except the clown trigger likes to eat dying xenia but thats it???
 
jennln

jennln

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Yay! I'm going to go ahead and move over some xenia and mushrooms tomorrow, rics and zoa's to follow if all goes well. Hopefully, there won't be any problems.
 
latinlord

latinlord

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nice... i'm going to check out some coral today for what looks to be my first Coral purchase... I have a list of some easy coral, so we'll see how it goes.. humm
 
latinlord

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Sunday is FUN day!! hehe.. I picked up some xenia and a fragspawn... my fragspawn is pretty cool. the xenia's claw motions are awesome!! I also picked up another tang today too.. a powder brown tang... my yellow tang is bullying him a little, but slowly they are getting used to each other.. he basically took control of the left side of the tank, while my yellow has the right... Overall today was a pretty interesting day.. :)
 
small triggers

small triggers

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I picked up a bright orange ball sponge yesterday from my lfs,, hopefully no one will eat it, its been in there for a day and other than my GSM moving it away from 'her' area its been okay. Ill take a pic tommarrow.
 
latinlord

latinlord

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Originally Posted by small triggers
http:///forum/post/3022755
I picked up a bright orange ball sponge yesterday from my lfs,, hopefully no one will eat it, its been in there for a day and other than my GSM moving it away from 'her' area its been okay. Ill take a pic tommarrow.
yea definitely take a pic! I'm looking for a yellow sponge... you know like spongebob square pants! lol for my newphew!.... ok for me!
 
small triggers

small triggers

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I have some new pics, my large (fist sized) orange sponge and you may be able to see the little blue sponge i still have from my nano tank.

 
jennln

jennln

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Figured I'd update this post with how my experiment went. Tank has several softies and lps. I moved some livestock around and the current inhabitants are still the clown trigger and the gold striped maroon, although the others were swapped out with my mean yellow tang lol. I also added a few blue damsels for color...I was never a fan of the damsels but I figured they'd be my best bet to be able to hold their own...so far so good, no one in the tank has given them a second look. Everyone is still happy and healthy. Trigger has yet to touch any of my snails or even the cleaner shrimp he shares sleeping quarters with (although the shrimp has hitched a ride on the trigger from time to time). Yes I am completely aware (and prepared) that this peaceful co-existence will most probably not last, and I do have a back up tank for the trig should the need arise. However I really love the tank as is and hope that things can remain as they are.
My next endeavor is upgrading the lighting so I can maybe delve into some sps.
 
reef_dart21

reef_dart21

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I have a "reef safe" , or so they said, yellow pygmy angel fish and it just wont let zoas or fox corals grow

with your inhabinants softies should be fine maybye little nibbling when hungry, but i would stay away from the sps because, if i heard right, trigger love to chew on them to grind down their teeth and etc..
 
jennln

jennln

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Originally Posted by Reef_Dart21
http:///forum/post/3164627
... but i would stay away from the sps because, if i heard right, trigger love to chew on them to grind down their teeth and etc..
Hmm...may have to research this idea a bit more then lol. Thanks for the heads up on that.
 
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