predator tank fish options

[hibye]

i wana convince my dad in to makin the 125 a predator tank because i never had one before and because my 30 gallon is going great and dont want to disturb it. so what t fish can i put together,

lionfish

longnose hawkfish

porcupine puffer or sddleback puffer

niger triggerfish

snowflake eel

sting ray

 

[RyanG]

A 125 is waaaaaay to small for a sting ray. Not even really enough for a fresh water ray let alone a salty one. The eel might even be cramped in there.

 

[Bifferwine]

The lionfish, hawkfish, trigger, puffer and small eel would be okay in a 125. But if you were going to buy a trigger for a predator tank, why oh why would you buy a boring old niger trigger????????? There are soooo many awesome looking triggers out there that hardly anyone keeps because they have to be kept in predator tanks! If you want a trigger, at least get a cool looking one!

Keep in mind if you want a predator tank, you will have to have a REALLY good protein skimmer. Predators produce a lot of waste and water quality easily becomes a problem.

 

[hibye]

o.k so i should get a different triggerfish becuase the niger is reef safe?, and what else are there. money limit 70$ at most.

For protein skimming we are getting a 20 gallon fuge and a aquatraders skimmer or a 125 coralife skimmer if we can find a cheap working one off ebay.and uv steralizer beacuse we dont want to have spant 200 or more on fish and they all die because of ich or somthing, plus i dont want to be sticking my arm into a preadator tank to clean algea or red slime off the rock sand,and glass

 

[RAYRAY]

I LOVE THE HUMA HUMA TRIGGER, a lot of people say they will actually bark at you when they are hungry. dont know if it is tru or not. But they look awesome. and pretty cheap too

 

[hibye]

i like the name of that trigger fish too huma huma huma trigggerfish.not bad price 20$

 

[hibye]

here is my two triggerfish that i like the most so far

HumaHuma Picasso Trigger - Rhinecanthus aculeatus - Small (Fiji) (Fish > Triggers > Huma Huma Picasso Trigger > Huma Picasso Trigger OS )

Rectangular Trigger - Rhinecanthus rectangulus - Small (Central Pacific) (Fish > Triggers > Rectangular Trigger > Rectangular Trigger OS )

hawkfish options
Longnose Hawkfish - Oxycirrhites typus - Small (Eastern Asia) (Fish > Hawkfish > Longnose Hawkfish > Longnose Hawkfish OS )

eels
Snowflake Eel - Echidna nebulosa - Small (Eastern Asia) (Fish > Eels > Snowflake Eel > Snowflake Eel OS )
puffer
Spiny Box Puffer - Chilomycterus schoepfi - Small (East Americas) (Fish > Puffers > Spiny Box Puffer > Spiny Box Puffer OS )

Saddle Valentini Puffer - Canthigaster valentini - Small (Central Pacific) (Fish > Puffers > Saddle Valentini Puffer > Saddle Valentini Puffer OS )

lionfish

dwarf puffer

 

[Bifferwine]

Go with the humahuma! They are AWESOME!

 

[hibye]

what about thes
ReefScavengers.Com - Saltwater Fish

 

[Bifferwine]

Which one?

 

[hibye]

oh sorry,. and which puffer fish should i get?

http://reefscavengers.com/stingray.html


were definitly want tehse

longnose hawkfish
humahuma triggerfish
dwarf lionfish

what else can go wit those

 

[Bifferwine]

That ray still is too big for a 30 gallon. Keep in mind, with predators like that, you probably won't be able to keep more than 2 or 3 fish in a 30 gallon tank. Predators eat a lot more and produce a lot more waste than other types of fish.

 

[hibye]

That ray still is too big for a 30 gallon. Keep in mind, with predators like that, you probably won't be able to keep more than 2 or 3 fish in a 30 gallon tank. Predators eat a lot more and produce a lot more waste than other types of fish.

im talking about the 125 gallon not my 30

 

[RyanG]

Even your 125 is too small for a ray. they need big time room, the minimum water listed for that is total crap

 

[fatman]

A Panther Grouper has great personallity, and a Dragon eel would be happy for two to four years at least, unless you feed him heavily on a daily basis.

 

[hibye]

i read on liveaquaria that panther groupers need a minimum of 300 gallons

 

[Bifferwine]

How about a dragon wrasse?

 

[fatman]

i read on liveaquaria that panther groupers need a minimum of 300 gallons

Sorry, but the longest I have ever kept any fish has been only a couple of years. Any fish I have had for a long time I have always been willing to sell when I was offered at least two or three times what I paid for it. I used to keep fish because it seemed to be expected that all people kept fish if they kept a reef. The last fish I have owned was in 1999, and that was a dragon eel. My twice weekly water changes were twice as large with him as they had been without him in a SPS colony/display tank. It was a 180 gallon AGA tank, with one homemade Beckett skimmer, and 200 lbs of live rock. :bounce:

 

[daugherty]

look at a clown trigger

 

[hibye]

my dad wants to have anemones in it but what fish will eat them and we only have 3 watt floresents