Valintini puffer in reef tank?

[viggen]

A friend is tearing down his reef tank & is willing to pretty much give everything to me. I have a 90g with a coral banded shrim & no fish due to me killing my hawk....long sad story

So he has the following fish to give me which are in his 75g tank

Blue hep tang
valentini puffer
tomato clown
scopas tang -- I think that's what he is

So, I know most of these would work but I am not sure on the puffer. I am just into anemones thus I do not plan on having anything to elaborate in there.

thanks & happy new year

 

[Denadai]

My brother has a valentine....but he eats SPS...soft and LPS no problem

 

[reef runt]

i knkw a few ppl with them in there softie/LPS and sps reef and hes brill! go for it

 

[viggen]

sweet.... sounds like I will take his stuff & possibly get a free tank as well

 

[JENnKerry]

They eat inverts though.

 

[edwar050]

Ironically I have had mine with a cleaner shrimp for nearly two years. The only thing ive seen it touch were a couple of snails and a couple bites of monti cap. It just depends on the valentini. Good luck-

 

[Angel*Fish]

To chime in - I had one in an LPS/softy tank - no probs - but he did have a taste for turbo snail and I suspect that he may have done some minor fin nipping of my maroon clowns while they were sleeping - probably getting them back for being such beasties during the day - lol

They are v-e-r-y cool fish. Mine used to get spooked by the hand in the tank and jumped once because of it - I scooped up the little round golfball and dumped him back in - he was spooked but got over it after a day or so.

They maybe are more intelligent than some of the other fish - just a guess -