Starting a aggressive Tank

[n2oninja]

I want to start from scratch an aggressive fish tank in my 120G AGA tank. I had small number of small peaceful fish but they got lost in the big tank so I started back up my starter tank (doing the right things this time around). I have a couple of question since an aggressive tank in different than the peaceful fish that I am use to.
1. Do I go back to live sand or CC
2. Since aggressive fish are not reef safe, what do you do for a clean up
crew?
3. The following is my wish list: humu hume, porc puffer, koran angel,
snowflake eel, and maybe a lion fish. Can these fish live peacefully
together? Is this too much for a 120G tank? And if so who would you
leave off? If they are all compatible, what order do you bring them into
the tank? Can I put more fish in? And if so what would you recommend?
4. Do you do live rock with an aggressive tank? Or fake rock with fake coral?
5. Would you use a UV light with the tank?
6. Best way of filtration?
FYI: I have a 120G AGA reef ready tank with a ASA sump 4. I have a euroreef protein skimmer. Coralife aqualight pro (300W MH with atinics).
A seachill chiller with built in heater and UV light.
Sorry about all the questions. But I want to do it right the first time. I'm sick of trial and error.
Thanks

 

[stdreb27]

With puffers and triggers your cleanup crew is you. The lion may get picked on by the puffer, they like chewing on stuff, and lions fins are one of them supposidly. I'm personally scared of triggers. One of these days I'll get the guts to go buy one and hope my other fish can stand beat him up.
On a more helpful note, I like argonite for a sand bed, it is small enough where food doesn't get in there. And big enough that if you need to you can vacuum.
I like lots of flow, you can do less, but my fish seem happier the more they are getting blown around, they take turns jumping infront of the power heads.

 

[triggerfre]

1- i would go with live sand but you could dod either
2- As for a clean up crew it depends on the fish, my pork puffer and picasso trigger do not touch and of the crabs and snail in the tank.And i also have chocolate chip starfish in there that they leave alone.
3-Yes all those fish can be in the same tank.But there is always a chance as with any combo of fish that something might happen.Just keep an eye on them.
4- Yes do live rock, it will help out with the filtration process.
5- And if it is going to be a fo or fowlr than i would run a uv to help control disease and floating algae.I run one on my aggressive tank.
6- I just set up a 210 aggressive and i went with a custom wet dry and a big skimmer.That is what i was told would be best for an aggressive set up.
Hope this helps.

 

[srfisher17]

No matter what you decide, I wouldn't use CC for anything. It is a massive nitrate factory(its shape traps crud) and post by folks asking how to get rid of CC are very common on this site. There are several better choices.