Harlequin Tuskfish
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cwfish
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Yes these are some great looking fish. They are usually not diffucult to keep and I would probably recommend a 75+ gal tank for them. They are semi-agressive with other tankmates and agressive eaters. Actually there is a Volkswagen commercial that has a halequin tusk fish in it, currently on TV.
splash1914
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mine has done very well.... basically stays in one area of my tank....
j21kickster
Active Member
personally i dont like to put fish into the minimum recomended size- i always suggest adding them to a tank where thay have more room- so if you can, put them in a tank well over the min recomended size. Especially if you have several fish that you are keeping in a minimum tank
sistrmary
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They're a peach to keep. I have one and I love it to pieces. You can't have snails though 
or crabs...or shrimp. Other than that, they're wonderful! IME they're not aggressive...but I could just have a passive one. He gets pushed around by my bitchy female tomato (but so does everyone else in that tank.)
or crabs...or shrimp. Other than that, they're wonderful! IME they're not aggressive...but I could just have a passive one. He gets pushed around by my bitchy female tomato (but so does everyone else in that tank.)
j21kickster
Active Member
glad you think of your clown that way
sistrmary
Member
Just how else should I think of her? She picks on the bar goby of all things. If there is a less territorial/aggressive fish, I'd be surprised...but she picks on it. Not just picks on it, she goes out of her way to pick on it. I never said that I don't like her...if I didn't, she'd not be in one of my tanks.
j21kickster
Active Member
i was only refering to your choice in words
itchy
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hey sistr,
I have the sister
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tomato clown in my tank. lol
she is soooo evil!! Even goes as far as to chase my 4" huma and the tomato might be 1.5 ". She is fun to watch but occasionally I have to swat at her with the net to let her know that she is in dangerous territory. Just like a woman to show her dominant side with bigger fish uhh? She will claim anything in the tank as her HOME as there are no longer sebae anemones in there for her.
I have the sister
[hr]
tomato clown in my tank. lol
she is soooo evil!! Even goes as far as to chase my 4" huma and the tomato might be 1.5 ". She is fun to watch but occasionally I have to swat at her with the net to let her know that she is in dangerous territory. Just like a woman to show her dominant side with bigger fish uhh? She will claim anything in the tank as her HOME as there are no longer sebae anemones in there for her.
hairtrigger
Active Member
An Australian tusk usually his more vibrant, brighter reds and purples. The others look almost like they have a small shadow over parts of them, but are still beautiful. Tusks are great. Semi aggressive. My triggers never liked them too much... but then again they don't like any wrasses. My old sulferhead eel ate a tusk. Learned a lesson from that one. I just learned a big tesselata can eat a big sohal tang too.... so watch eels with tucks. They aren't cheap.
iechy
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I used to have one in my aggressive tank and IME they are pretty easy to keep. That is unless, like mine did, they don't get their faces ripped off by a Picasso Trigger. He did great for a really long time and was really a beautiful fish but one day my trigger fish decided he didn't want him there any more and tore him apart. It was horrible I felt so bad all I could do was watch it die hoping it could recover but obviously it did not.
grouperhead
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Tusks will probably be fine with the more passive planktonic triggers such as blue jaw, Hawaain black, pink tail, white tail, and to a lesser extent nigers. No inverts in the tank. The problem with Philipino specimens, other than not being as pretty, is they are still collected by using cyanide. Bo