Stocking my 135

[jamos6]

What do you guys think of these combos for my 135 gal tank?
1st combo
1 porcupine puffer, 2 SFE, Clown Trigger, Lionfish, Blue Angel
2nd combo
2 porcupine puffers, 1 SFE, Clown Trigger, Lionfish, Blue Angel
if there is any others that might be good offer them too.

 

[cincyreefer]

1st setup... Sounds fine although you may have problems with the trigger picking on fish, especially the fins of the lion.
2nd setup... I would get just one porky and get a wrasse instead. A harlequin tusk would go well.

 

[chandler04]

Yea, get a tusk. If yer already gonna be invert free with the trigger and puffer, might as well go with a tusk. those are great fish. I wouldnt go with a trigger though. They would kill the lion, and lions are just so much cooler than triggers.

 

[moraym]

Clown triggers grow up to be mean, in my experience they'll just wake up one day and think "hey, i can kill everything in this tank" and proceed to kill half the tank it had previously been living with peacefully for a year. I watched that happen to my buddy's tank, and it was interesting how bipolar his clown became.

 

[jamos6]

Yeah i think I might drop the trigger. Can you have more than 1 puffer like a dog and a porky?
I might do a porky, dog, lionfish, SFE, and a grouper will that work in this tank?

 

[evilss]

i had a porky and a golden puffer. they worked out great. the golden was older and bigger and he taught the porky a few things. like spiting water at me when it was feeding time and had the tops open and was getting the food ready. also when i was done they would spit at me to close the tops. absolutly amazing fish. you could consider a niger trigger. they are pretty and calm. from my experience.

 

[jamos6]

I dont really know bout triggers cause the 1 I use to have killed my angel and my lionfish and it was the last thing I added alsoit was a Humahuma which was supose to be peaceful.

 

[chandler04]

Y dont u ditch the goruper and get a Harlequin tusk or some other sort of wrasses? Groupers are pooping machines, plus they grow VERY bg. Other than that, yer list sounds good to me. Puffers get along great, I think, as long as they dont look the same. So, yea, yer good.