Aggressive Fish Compatability

[nottheone]

Any experienced aquarists have recemmendations on which are usually BAD combinations?

Well just consider the usual suspects, triggers, angels, lionfish, puffers, eels, wrasses etc.

Thanks again.

 

[Sk8r]

Two of almost anything.

 

[danorth]

You can never be 100% certain until you try it out. Honestly. I have seen things that should never work and do.

 

[Sk8r]

seriously, if you do have a territorial fish and are trying to add a tankmate, sometimes you can break the territoriality by yanking the #1 fish into qt, and rearranging the rock. In the case of aggressives, you may need two qt tanks to do this.

 

[nottheone]

Thanks guys. Sounds like sound advice to me. I have been reading for months ( originally was gonna go reef) so i have a lot book knowledge but no experience!

Here is a tenative line up:

1 Purple tang or 1 sohal tang
Miniatus grouper
Procupine puffer
Trigger would like a clown (i know risky) but may be willing to settle for Humuhumu.

i figure if i want them to have room as adults that should probably be it.

i am going to add some sea cucumbers, horshoe crabs, and a bunch of hermits for algae and detritus control and fish snacks!

I have a lifereef vs24 skimmer (mag 9.5), a refugium (16 gal. prolly only 5 or so water in it after adding mud). It is plumbed to the lifereef sump (ls-300, the largest one they have). Gonna due culerpa in the refugium with 24 hour lighting. and 700gph flowthru rate.

Any thoughts on all this including the fish selection?

 

[Monkeyfish]

Go with the Humu Humu rather than the clown. Clown = dead fish.