STOCKING A 350 Gallon TANK

[silkks11]

Well this thursday I found a guy to take my 240 and swap it with a 350 gallon tank thats 6ftX4ftX2ft yes i'm extremely excited. Heres my list of fish that I'll be adding into the tank, lets here your opinions on them.
1 Panther Grouper
1 Volitan Lion
1 blue spot sting ray
1 leopard shark
1 Tessy Eel
1 Queen Angel
1 Emp Angel
1 Harliquen tusk
1 Huma Huma Trigger
1 Clown Trigger
1 Blue Line Trigger
probably a pair of lunar wrasses or dragon wrasses not sure yet

 

[cwfish]

Congrats on the new tank! I think you will have to make major modifications to your fish list though. The angels will not go together very well even in a large tank. Also having a stingray and a shark in with triggers and a lion is not a good idea. Tessalata eels also work best in a species tank as they have a tendency to get rather mean and they do get large. 5 feet +.

 

[jim27]

Thats an awesome tank. Although you'll want to either ditch the triggers and angels or the shark and ray, the triggers and angels pick pick at them.

 

[silkks11]

even if I make the tank a nice horshoe with the live rock with about 4 feet of nice open area in the middle, I really think everything would be fine in that tank

 

[grouperhead]

You have a lot of options with that tank, but all those fish cannot be kept together. Tessellattas are very aggressive and usually don't tolerate any tankmates. The grouper, lion, and triggers would probably work if the triggers were added last (picasso, clown, then blue-line.) You could keep a leopard in there for a while, but it will eventually outgrow the tank. Bamboos and epaulettes would be fine in there their whole lives. If you want angles, do a community/fowlr. They do not do well with agressive fish. My .02. Good luck with the tank, I hope it turns out well. Bo

 

[fmarini]

I will only add that those triggers you mention all pick on flowing fins.
IME the triggers will either break off or denude the lions spines. I usually say don't keep lion w/ those types of triggers. If you want triggers w/ lions think planktonic feeders, (pinktailed, bluecheek, niger, etc)
frank

 

[grouperhead]

Oops, forgot about triggers nipping lions' spines/fins. Planktonic triggers probably would be best. I wouldn't be as worried about the picasso as the clown and blueline though. Bo

 

[silkks11]

come on guys more replies please