Showpiece for a 90-gal species tank?

[Drixonite]

I'm getting my 90-gal in on next Monday. It's 48 x 18 x 24 with an AGA fluorescent strip...

Filtration = 140 lbs of fiji live rock, 50 gal diy wet/dry sump underneath. So way more filtration than is needed.

I changed my mind about the lionfish, instead I want one big showpiece. I was thinking tesselata eel, which grows to 5' 10" and requires a 180-gal at adulthood, that I would trade back to the LFS when he was approaching around 3 ft. Or a clown triggerfish for life.

How fast would the eel outgrow the tank?

Thanks for the input.

 

[Drixonite]

Bump, come on guys I need help! No reply in 5 hours?!

 

[guppy]

You are talking salt, right? You shoulkd dupe this into the slt forum as most of us are lost.
Personally, as a single showpiece fish in a 90g I would go with a gold ribbon soapfish (Aulacococephalus temmenickii) pic by Randall,J., It is a 16" max, predator, that likes nooks and crannies.

 

[Killerhap]

I know very little about SW since I never had a Salt Water tank, but if I would for some reason get a salt water tank, I have always really liked Trigger Fish.

some nice ones:

Odonus niger
Balistoides conspicillum
Rhinecanthus aculeatus
Rhinecanthus verrucosus

and

Balistes vetula too big for your tank however