Buying new tank:need opinions on fish

by **JamesC** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:48 am

Hey everybody so in the next 3 months I am going to buy a large salt water acrylic tank. The dimensions are going to be 96x32x34 about 450g. I have been doing research and have come up with a list I fish I want to buy. This tank will have live rock and some corals. I just want to know everyone’s opinion on it. Thanks-James

Yellow tang-2
Purple Tang-1
Chevron Tang-1
Kole Yellow Eye Tang-1
Achilles Tang-1
Queen Angelfish -1
Firefish-2
Mystery Wrasse-1
Kaudern cardinal fish-10
True Percula Clownfish-2
Bartlett’s Anthias-3
Blue/Green Reef Chromis-5
Neon Goby-2
Dracula Goby-1
Six Line Wrasse-1
Scarlet Pin Stripe Wrasse-1
Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp-3

This is just a ballpark idea as of now.

by **fihsboy** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:18 am

Your talking roughly.......80 inches + of fish. 1 inch per 5 gallons.....thats 400 gallons. Sounds about right. only thing is...DAMN thats a lot of water. haha Sounds solid....but make sure you get your equipment running and trouble free before the addition of fish. The skimmer on this tank will be more than the tank will be its self. Keep us posted sounds awesome!

by **JamesC** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:31 am

the tank will be in my basement

by **riese1313** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:44 am

You can't have a saltwater tank without a triggerfish!

by **blueshoes2208** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:37 am

he can if he wants corals.... one or the other....... cant have both.....

by **JamesC** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:49 am

i will add small crabs, snailes, 1-2 starfish this just an outline for what i think i might buy

by **Deltasigpony3648** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:51 am

i have a niger trigger and he is great in my tank even gets cleaned by the cleaners......um purple tang with yellow tank i dont suggest they will fight the rest is fine

by **puffedupseagull** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:07 am

Not necessarily blue shoes.
Black nigger triggers are reef safe with caution like any fish. I think sometimes queen niggers are ok to. I have attached a pic of mine. Never even looks at a coral.
Yes blue and yellow tangs prob will fight because they are very similar.

by **schigara** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:19 am

lol....Puffedup...I think you may have just had a Freudian slip there. I have never heard of that type of Trigger! Are you a Kevin Smith or George Carlin fan?

by **puffedupseagull** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:56 pm

maybe??? schigara
Thats what they call em here i think. this link says it to.
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgu ... n%26sa%3DG

or the queen nigger trigger i would imagine

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