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sirsquarepants

sirsquarepants

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I've had a reef aquarium for about 3 years but now I'm want to set up a small (75 gal., small in comparrison to all of the 300 gal. tanks i've been reading about:) ) aggresive tank. I think the dragon eel is the coolest thing I have ever seen but I don't know where I could get one. I'd want a tesselata eel, a clown trigger, a lionfish (not sure what kind yet), a panther grouper, and mabey a puffer but I know I can't have them all together in there. Any suggestions on what would me best?
Also, is there any way to keep all algae out of your aggresive tank or is that just a wonderful dream? :D If it is, how do you scrape algae off your glass and keep it off the rocks when you have a bunch of snapping fish in there?
 
piccasotrigger

piccasotrigger

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I would go with the tessy eel and a lionfish i think they should be fine together in that tank not sure but it has worked for me but they cant be in a reef aquarium.
 
grouperhead

grouperhead

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A 75 is a pretty small tank. In mine I have a gold striped soapfish 6", picasso trigger 4.5", and snowflake moray 28" and the tank is full. Tessy's and volitans both get way to large for a 75, and tessy's don't do well with other tankmates. Good fish for a 75 are smaller triggers - pinkthroat, blue-jaw, picasso, lunare wrasses and several other thalassoma ssp., smaller eels, canthigaster ssp. puffers, and a few other odds and ends. Choose wisely, you only have room for 3, maybe 4 fish. Bo
 
sirsquarepants

sirsquarepants

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If I did get the two PicassoTrigger mentioned, could I keep em at least for 1 or 2 years or would the tessy take the lionfish out before then?
I think those 2 alone will be sweet enough for me and I think I'll be getting a bigger tank by the time they grow too big for the 75.
If that would be alright, what kind of food will keep both of them happy and healty though?
 
sirsquarepants

sirsquarepants

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Could I be any better off size wize with a zebra eel. I know the other fish would be happier seein how they won't be the food,:D or is it really best to go with what stingray said and get a SFE and if I got a SFE could I get two?
 
polarpooch

polarpooch

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There are all sorts of eels that could fit a 75 easily. The tesselata just isn't one of them: averages about 4 feet as an adult, but can max out at nearly 6 feet--YIKES. Check out www.wetwebmedia.com for great info on good morays for an aquarium.
I've seen Hawaiian Dragons for as high as $1200! If you have the money, they're supposed to be terrific, semi-small morays...but they eat fish. Go figure.
(I'll probably get hammered for this, but I have had NO problems keeping morays together--even the tesselata. I have three in one tank (Tesselata, snowflake and blackedge) and they are well behaved towards each other.)
Zebras are supposed to be better with fish--but I wouldn't trust any large moray and a fish together. I learned the hard way about that.
Here's what I'd add if I were setting up that tank: one snowflake, a medium sized sohol tang (12" max), large Klunzinger wrasse
(8" max) and medium sized porcupine puffer (15" max). All super dominant fish, so territory struggles resolve themselves quickly. Snowflake is too small to eat the fish and easy to care for. The tang and puffer get fairly large eventually (not like groupers, though!), but it takes a long time...and they are all just gorgeous, fairly hardy fish.
As for the algae...the tang would eat a lot of it. Add a UV sterilizer and bad algae goes away:) And you won't need those powerful reef lights for a fish/rock tank--which will help reduce the algae growth, too. Scraping in an aggressive tank isn't hard! Get an algae magnet if you're worried about getting nipped, but I've never been bitten...even by my psycho eels!
 
polarpooch

polarpooch

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Scott270...I've been keeping a 75 with a similar load for over 5 years and I haven't had any problems with the bio-load. Someday I may have to relocate the porky if he gets TOO big, but that's the only hassle I even expect.
 
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