Mean Fish..

tmogren

tmogren

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I am looking to get a new fish for my tank and wanted to know what some other people thought, here is what I have.
110 gallon saltwater tank, Huma Trigger, Wrasse (don't know what kind, he's blue, green, yellow and mean..), Porcupine Puffer fish, and 2 Skats (not sure if that's the correct spelling) I want to add another fish preferably a Eal or another trigger but I'm worried my current fish will kill them.. I bought a clown trigger and my huma killed it within a hour, so.. any idea's?
Thanks,
Travis
 
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rcreations

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I don't know, the Huma if it's as mean as it sounds, can kill any fish or eel you put in. You can try a V-Tail grouper. That's a nice looking fish and it doesn't get as big,
 
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saxman

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Adding another trigger to a tank with an established picasso is an accident waiting to happen. Your trigger saw the noob as a direct competitor for food as well as space and nipped the problem in the bud, so to speak.
You could probably add a SFE or zebra moray to the tank without much trouble, esp if you add it at lights out. The eels are nocturnal and won't really be out when the trigger is awake. Be sure the eel has a lair of some sort.
I kept a picasso for years with a SFE, a Diodon puffer, foxface, red soldierfish (Myripristis murdjians), and a volitans lion (not recommended, but this was 20 years ago too).
 
tmogren

tmogren

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Yea.. My trigger did not like the new fish at all.. What does everyone think about a tessalta eel or something allong those lines.. I had a lion fish a long time ago and it killed all my fish, so I won't be getting one of those again. someone told me to get a blue line grouper, will that work as well?
 
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saxman

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Just out of curiosity, how did your lion kill all of your fish (other than eating them)?
In 20 years, I've only seen one lion actively kill a fish that wouldn't leave it alone (a VERY nasty yellow tang that was returned to a LFS I frequented because it was so nasty). The tang started harassing the lion the second it was released, didn't heed the lion's warnings, kept at it, and got skewered several times by the lion once the lion had enuff of the tang's BS.
AK,
I was wondering about that one myself, but I finally took "skats" to mean "scats" as in Scatophagus sp. because I can't IMAGINE keeping one skate in a 110, much less two of them.
 
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rcreations

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Usually lions don't kill tank mates, they just eat the ones that fit in their mouths, as food. A lot of people talk about them as agressive fish, but they really aren't at all. They're very passive, I've never seen one be agressive towards a tank mate.
 
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