potential tank ideas

kooljoe

kooljoe

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hello all... I'm working on a 120 gallon tank that I plan to be a fish only system. It's still cycling so I have at least a month before I can add anything and at least 2 months before I can think about adding almost anything. But here is a wish list of potential fish that I'm thinking to add and I'd like any comments or tips from experience as far as which ones might be bad with the the rest on the list or if there's tips on something not on the list to consider that goes well with several other things that are on the list.
Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish
Snowflake Eel
Porcupine Puffer
Yellow Tang
Blue Hippo Tang
Humu Humu Trigger
Annularis Angelfish
btw: this is a consolidated list that both myself and girlfriend worked on so there are different thoughts and reasons behind each one that we've listed. so any feedback may allow us to have a better list that we both like.
 
srfisher17

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by kowaleski
http:///forum/post/2938094
puffer my nip at the lionfish
Yeah, and the trigger certainly will. Triggers & lions are often kept together; until the cute little trigger turns into a real trigger and shreds the lionfish. IMO, they just don't belong together.
 
user420

user420

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My buddy had a 55 gallon fish only tank.
He had a Lionfish
Porcupine Puffer
Trigger
the lion wasnt a dwarf and it was I thikn a

[hr]
trigger but this tank was great the lion would always post up somewhere the puffer stayed to the top going back and forth he was really cool and liked ppl alot. The trigger would just zip around real fast and hide behind rocks
I think the 3 lived great together just IMO
 
kooljoe

kooljoe

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The problem with the puffer, lionfish, and trigger is that there from what I can read online and from these great replies to my original posts is that you can definitely put them together but it's not always clear that it will work out for the best or not until time passes...
The trigger that we've selected is described as being only semi aggressive and does well in community tanks, so maybe that won't be a problem (but maybe it will!)...
And for this list, we already have the puffer. She got it for me as a Christmas present and I have it in my 46 gallon reef tank. It’s still small enough that the tank space is not a problem and it either is too young or not smart enough yet but it hasn't nibbled on any of my corals yet as I’ve heard they tend to do. But either way I’m moving the puffer to the 120 as soon as I’m sure it is good to...
And that leaves the lionfish. My girlfriend wants this much more than I do. But then again I do the actual tank maintenance and she looks after feeding them (we figured out real quick how hard it is for both of us to think about feeding and ended up overfeeding!). So it is much more likely for my hands to be in the tank than hers and I’m not sure if i want to test the effects of lionfish venom!
So I think I’ll take the replies here and try and convince her of not having the dwarf lionfish...
 
srfisher17

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by user420
http:///forum/post/2938911
My buddy had a 55 gallon fish only tank.
He had a Lionfish
Porcupine Puffer
Trigger
the lion wasnt a dwarf and it was I thikn a

[hr]
trigger but this tank was great the lion would always post up somewhere the puffer stayed to the top going back and forth he was really cool and liked ppl alot. The trigger would just zip around real fast and hide behind rocks
I think the 3 lived great together just IMO
This tank isn't big enough for just a porky puffer, long term. IMO, its just a matter of time before the lion is shredded. How long has he had this set-up? If the time is measured in months, that's not nearly long enough to be credible. I doubt you could find any credible source that would reccommend this combination of fish. It may work for a while, anything may work shor-term.
 
srfisher17

srfisher17

Active Member
Originally Posted by kooljoe
http:///forum/post/2938995
The problem with the puffer, lionfish, and trigger is that there from what I can read online and from these great replies to my original posts is that you can definitely put them together but it's not always clear that it will work out for the best or not until time passes...
The trigger that we've selected is described as being only semi aggressive and does well in community tanks, so maybe that won't be a problem (but maybe it will!)...
And for this list, we already have the puffer. She got it for me as a Christmas present and I have it in my 46 gallon reef tank. It’s still small enough that the tank space is not a problem and it either is too young or not smart enough yet but it hasn't nibbled on any of my corals yet as I’ve heard they tend to do. But either way I’m moving the puffer to the 120 as soon as I’m sure it is good to...
And that leaves the lionfish. My girlfriend wants this much more than I do. But then again I do the actual tank maintenance and she looks after feeding them (we figured out real quick how hard it is for both of us to think about feeding and ended up overfeeding!). So it is much more likely for my hands to be in the tank than hers and I’m not sure if i want to test the effects of lionfish venom!
So I think I’ll take the replies here and try and convince her of not having the dwarf lionfish...
I sure think you're reading different stuff than I am. Almost every source I know of considers a huma an aggressive trigger (L.A., B.Z.) and does not suggest keeping lions with triggers. (Bob Fenner, and others)
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1542493 Suggested reading:
 
small triggers

small triggers

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Just to let you know,, my humma that ive had for 2 years is just now starting to be aggressive. Ive had it in with the same fish for almost the whole 2 years and now its starting to bully things, it actually gave my foxface a heart attack this morning and it died (the humma and my new toad were swimming around the fox and the humma took a nip at him, so as fox's do it flipped out and smacked itself against every surface in my tank and tried to jump out and hit the tops,,,, then died)SO while they are small and sometimes they never bother anything, most of the times they act like a trigger and do what they do best,,, nip at things like slower moving fish.
 
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