Addtional fish thoughts

[reelredfish]

Yes a puffer that is currently living in a reef already would be great...make the wife happy

I am considering another tang maybe just the regular old yellow tang around the same size as these two.

From there not sure what else the plan would be. The trigger picked at the naso for about two days but the naso would dish it right back. Now they are buds and don't seem to bother each other at all. Maybe some large clowns?

 

[Easy E]

If you're thinking about a porcupine puffer, I would advise against that. Unless you want a big swimming stomach in your tank. I unfortunately inherited one with a tank I got from a person who was giving up the hobby. It would greedily and immediately consume any amount of food I put in the tank and was constantly looking for more. It would even eat caulerpa algae from my refugium, so I'm pretty sure it would have eaten Tang veggies as well. I quickly got tired of it eating all the food and generally making a mess of the tank, so I took it to the LFS and gave it away for nothing.

I see you inquired about the Moon Wrasse in one of your posts. I also had one of those. It was really beautiful when it grew to its full adult size, but was a very agressive feeder as well, at times going so far as to take food right out of other fish's mouths. It also had the somewhat annoying habit of spending all its waking hours swimming back and forth all over the tank with a herky-jerky motion. This lack of respect for individual territory seemed to stress out some of the more mild-mannered tankmates. This guy got too big and mean for my tank and wound up being another freebie for the LFS. I have a lime green wrasse now that's almost as pretty, but much less aggressive.

I would like to give something other than negative advice but I've never had a tank that big. I've always dreamed about having one big enough for a miniatus grouper, because IMO it's one of the finest looking fish there is. I think a 180 would qualify, so if I was you, that's the fish I'd be looking into. Of course I have no idea whether it would be a good choice or not, having never kept one. I just think groupers are really cool.

 

[reelredfish]

Thanks Easy I have looked at that grouper a few times just not sure that would be the best bet. I think it is a great fish and love the colors.

 

[reelredfish]

Schools of lyretail anthrax are a personal favorite not sure if the trigger would bully them tho

Lyretail Anthia

Took a look at these and I think at least one male or one male and two females of this fish would add a nice look to the tank.

Providing they don't get picked on to much and they can get enough to eat with the pink tail.

However I think the more fish I add the less focus the trigger has. This Naso has really held his own and put him in check.

 

[Easy E]

You definitely don't want the anthrax.

At the risk of sounding like Mr. Knowzit, I also had a male Lyretail Anthias. I know it sounds like a contradiction, but I would call it a picky, aggressive feeder. Mine would only eat mysis shrimp, but could definitely hold its own at feeding time, even around much larger fish. It would ignore every other type of food you put in front of it, but would go after the frozen mysis like there was no tomorrow. That said, it suddenly died after a couple years in my tank for no apparent reason. It may have been due to the lack of variety in its diet, but it went downhill very quickly so I'm more inclined to think it was some sort of disease. Whatever it was didn't affect affect any of its tankmates. Anthias seem to be fairly susceptible to disease by some accounts, so you might want to go with something a bit more hardy. On the other hand, a small harem would be neat thing to observe, and my male probably would have done a lot better under those conditions. It certainly couldn't have hurt his quality of life. If you're going to take the Anthias route, I'd probably go with one male and as many females as you can afford.

 

[reelredfish]

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