question about tank mates.

[Bsixxx]

that tank would be good for a titan trigger and a bumblebee grouper than, you could have a group of smaller fish as long as you give them solid hiding places to stay away from the 2 monsters. or go with a live rock pile in the center and do a black tip reef shark that would swim around the outside of the center pile of rocks and keep some smaller fish in there like say a giant school of 2.99 damsels that would get picked off one at a time and have to be replenished regularly.

that sounds pretty rad, i'm not sure how big the garage is as i haven't moved yet, but I can possibly go 12x5x4, and if that's the case i'm going grouper, deffinate black tip or wobby possibly both, ditch te triggers cause i want corals and frags and anemonies(sp) and some cheap little feeder/schooling fish. what do you all think?

 

[perfect_prefect]

i remember in the shark ray section a guy having a beautiful black tip reef shark that his bumblebee grouper ate......... expensive entree.

 

[TheCanuck]

a bumble bee grouper will out grow your tank. If i was you i would go for a shark comunity reef. I have had big predator tanks and they are fun. But once you get a good size tank pred is no longer fun. They just get to big and rip each othr apart. I am getting rid of my 5ft green moray and all my predators. They are such a waste in a large tank. I am going with some small sharks and then a full community reef.


Your plans sound like they will fail. You will probably pay more on replacing fish than you payed for the tank. Check my threads bro, i have done the exact thing you want to do, and it worked. I now realize its really not that great and i would rather have a peacefull tank or give a tank to each of my predators.

Thats why i am going with sharks and a full comunity, so i can stop spend so much money. Replacing fish and the upkeep for predators of this size is not worth it... I think you would be wasting such a beautiful tank on such a lousy display stock.



BTW triggers and puffers dont mix with sharks, they will kill sharks.


Lionfish
Grouper
puffer
damsels
wrasses
eels
triggers


^^
above is your best % stock list.


once again though i think your wasting such a beautiful tank with a terrible stocking idea. You will eventually get tired of fish eating fish. You will also get tired of rocks being knocked down and scratching your tank and the fact you cant even stick your hand in to clean the algae spots.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8y8D4JcZbk

Here is what i am going for.

 

[Bsixxx]

a bumble bee grouper will out grow your tank. If i was you i would go for a shark comunity reef. I have had big predator tanks and they are fun. But once you get a good size tank pred is no longer fun. They just get to big and rip each othr apart. I am getting rid of my 5ft green moray and all my predators. They are such a waste in a large tank. I am going with some small sharks and then a full community reef.


Your plans sound like they will fail. You will probably pay more on replacing fish than you payed for the tank. Check my threads bro, i have done the exact thing you want to do, and it worked. I now realize its really not that great and i would rather have a peacefull tank or give a tank to each of my predators.

Thats why i am going with sharks and a full comunity, so i can stop spend so much money. Replacing fish and the upkeep for predators of this size is not worth it... I think you would be wasting such a beautiful tank on such a lousy display stock.



BTW triggers and puffers dont mix with sharks, they will kill sharks.


Lionfish
Grouper
puffer
damsels
wrasses
eels
triggers


^^
above is your best % stock list.


once again though i think your wasting such a beautiful tank with a terrible stocking idea. You will eventually get tired of fish eating fish. You will also get tired of rocks being knocked down and scratching your tank and the fact you cant even stick your hand in to clean the algae spots.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8y8D4JcZbk

Here is what i am going for.

number one reasons i wanted a large saltwater tank was because of the groupers, not particularly a bb grouper but some groupers, and also cause i wanted a shark. This is the tanks I wanted to immitate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFchZE5GzYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP60qmCvuhM

the two tanks I really want. or i wanted to do an all predator venomous tank, with sea goblin, stone fish, frogfish, lion fish, puffers etc..