Trigger & Tang?

[dutch27]

So, the skinny on the tank...

Standard 120, 30g sump, skimmer, etc. Other inhabitants will be a pair of clowns, 3-4 anthias, trio of centropyge, some bottom dwellers like a watchman or hector's.

No big plans for inverts other than some potential clean up crew (I know, triggers may eat them). The likely trigger and tang candidates are a blue throat or picasso and a yellow tang. I do worry my aquascape doesn't have enough rock work to keep a trigger happy. The tang may be switchable with a copperbanded. Coral wise I plan on keeping general mixed reef.

I would like to have some peppermint shrimp as they've always been good to me with keeping aiptasia in their place, which I don't think I could do if I kept a trigger.

My concern is more on bioload on a 120 as well as enough room to keep both a trigger and tang or copperbanded happy.

 

[flfireman1]

I have a pair of blue throat triggers in my 120 along with a purple tang and some others. Everyone is happy and I do realize I must either upgrade or move the triggers out when they get bigger. I probably have about 100+ lbs of live rock with lots of caves and crevices for them to hide and swim thru. I do have an oversized skimmer for my 120 and a denitrator as well. I also do about 50 gallons of water change every 10 days or so.
I would say you should be fine as long as your skimmer is adequate and keep up on your water changes.
Oh, and skip the peppermint shrimp I added 4 to my display for aptasia control. My male blue throat made quick work of one immediately. The other 3 ended up in the overflow. But they do leave the coral banded shrimp and cleaner shrimp alone.
HTH