what fish?

i am going to have a 105 gallon reef ready fowlr....these are the fish i wish to keep...red volitan lion, some type of puffer, a trigger, panther grouper (until it gets too big), eel, and tang?
are there too many fish in here?? if so whichy ones do i drop
 

squidd

Active Member
Puffers and Triggers are "generaly" not good tankmates with a lion. They tend to be fin nippers, and can turn a big proud lion "fan" into a droopy stubby wretch pretty quick. Look on the aggressive fish forums there are some posts on just that!
 

michaeltx

Moderator
youl have to watch the trigger lion combination alot of triggers will pick on the lions long fins and sometimes the lions arent able to fight off the occuring infection that occurs.
also adding a tang to the mix can be a tricky tangs are notorious for getting ich it can be done though but have to monitor your water closely and a lot of water changes. about the only one that I know that will work are the yellow tangs. I would stay away from all the powders and the more exotic ones. IMO
this was the stocking list for my 100 before I turned into a reef.
1 yellow tang
1 Huma Huma trigger. (as it gets bigger it gets aggressive escpially towrds lions and porkypine puffers)
1 Porky Pine Puffer
1 Stars and Stripes Puffer
1 Yellow Headed Morray
with this stocking I did Bi-Monthy water changes to keep everything in check all of them arte messy eaters and with no clean up crew its hard to keep water quality up
FWIW
Mike
 
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