Is 90 enough

crablegs

Member
Is a 90 gallon going to be big enough to keep a huma huma happy in to adulthood or will I have to move him again later? I'd like to just move him once even if it means buying a larger tank.
Thx
[ June 23, 2001: Message edited by: crablegs ]
 

crablegs

Member
Thanks Che and dlight, I was considering the snowflake too. Someone told me that triggers are immune to the lion's poison and may pick at it's fins...any truth to that? Seems alot of folks recommend the lion with a trigger and I would love to have one. Thanks again for the input.
 
as a trigger gets older its scales become almost like armor against the lionfish's spins, it is very rare for it to happen, maybe in a 90 you could get a harlequin tusk, some kind of puffer, large yellow or purple tang, a grouper??
about the eel, just make sure you have the tank sealed off completly because eels are escape artists and will find anyone hole and jump out of the tank, some believe this is because they hate being in the tank, but my theory is this; they have awful eye sight and chase their "food" out of the tank, or see sone kind of opening and mistake it for somthing else and end up out of the tank.
 

lionfish

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LionFish says.......
Groupers in a 90 gallon tank? Not a chance. I wish I could have one in any of my tanks but I dont believe my Volitans would ttake to kindly to having a giant fish like that invading his space. So, definitely no grouper. Now, triggers being immune to lionfish stings. Never heard that before. Of course, when some triggers get older their scales turn into an armor plate and the sting can't reach the tender underside. But this is extremely rare although someone preaches htis all the time. The trigger rarely would attack a lion. Snowflake eels are awesome. I have one and he is the coolest fish, next to my Tusk and lions, of course. Harlequin Tusks are amazing fish for tankmates, too.
Chelives- You're gonna add a Purple Tang with those other fish? I guess you and I see differently from that point of view. I would never add a Tang to an aggressive tank especially with the fish you mentioned. I think you're gonna crowd that tank really quick.
 

benihuma

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In my 90 I have a clown trigger, huma trigger, snowflake eel, cleaner wrasse, large peach-sized hermit crab, emerald crab and two small hermits. I'd love to get a tusk but that would be overdoing it.
Ben
 
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