Starting an all eel tank... thoughts?

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Friggen 135 cracked!!! thanks to a peice of live rock that was loose I am guessing.
Well looks like i'll have to use a bigger tank... I have a 225 and a 240
but the 225 is for fresh. so 240 maybe...

if I go 240 (96x24x25") what could work in there? If this would work i'll continue with salt if not then idk.

1x Zebra Shark
1x White mouth moray
1x Tesselata Moray
1x Volitan lionfish
1x Red Flag Grouper (Cephalopholis urodeta)
1x Undulate Triggerfish
2x Pinnatus Batfish
3x Blueface Angelfish / or 3x Clown Tangs

any way this will work? Main fish I want are the eels. I basically want an eel biotype... LIke the eels being the centerpeice and other fish like the angels/ tangs or batfish being the background fish and then have a bunch of little other fish, cleanershrimp,blennies,gobies,wrasses chromis etc etc swimming around.
So help me out on getting this. If it is possible.
thanks in advanced
 
I can't comment on the shark, I'll let the shark guys comment on that...but personally, I'd go with a smaller species than a tesselata, maybe a G. moringa or something like that.
 
Two pinatus batfish? These guys get big, and are hard to get feeding...I might raise one up in a separate tank as they are pretty gentle feeders, especially compared to everything else you have in there.
 
FLESHY;5067731; said:
Two pinatus batfish? These guys get big, and are hard to get feeding...I might raise one up in a separate tank as they are pretty gentle feeders, especially compared to everything else you have in there.
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I'm just throwing some options out, they are really pretty fish, and i heard if you introduce them first they aren't that hard to get going.

Cichlaholics Anonymous;5067114; said:
I can't comment on the shark, I'll let the shark guys comment on that...but personally, I'd go with a smaller species than a tesselata, maybe a G. moringa or something like that.
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Shark i don't think i will go with, not into sharks really.
And could you guys maybe give me some latin names of these other eels?
I can't find anything really.

But if you haven't figured it out I really like the the look of the tesselata eel and others that have that sorta pit bull head and those menacing teeth. If I could find a few species that look like that with some decent color or pattern that stay under 4-5' I'd go with them.
 
Tessies are two species - favagineus is the more common species; it has smaller, rounder spots equally distributed over it's body. G. isingteena is less common but by no means rare. Liveaquaria sometimes markets it as a Panda moray; they have splotchy, irregular black marks. In my opinion the latter is the chiller of the two species, but that could just be the individuals I kept, including one for a long time. Keep in mind "chiller" means it still killer some other fish, just fewer of them. He was buds with my epaulette shark. It's also the species with the blunt, pit bullish head.

The white mouth is Gymnothorax meleagris - a wicked cool aquarium species that may become food for your tessie. If you get them at the same size that would reduce the likelihood.

Protein skimmer - Go big or go home!
 
BTW; I've had horrible experiences with G. moringa... also, according to fishbase they actually get bigger than Tessies - 7 feet based on a recent specimen. Other's may have had better experiences, I'm just sharing my not so great ones. :)
 
Thanks for the help. So as for other eel species is there anything that looks like the eels i've listed that perhaps get smaller? There is a 36"+ tessie at my lfs that I want, but I think I should just start out with everything small like 12-20".

As for the other fish I listed think it will work? Or is it just one of those oh so common things that you just have to deal with trial and error?
 
Predator 1;5068413; said:
Why do I get a feeling of "deja vu" when G. Insingteena is mentioned Comatose??
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Not sure... I posted a pic of mine a while ago...
 
I honestly don't know a whole lot about tangs/angels... never kept them. IMHO almost all species of grouper are too large to keep in almost all home aquariums (and they WILL gulp smaller fish), but a lot of people keep them, so take that with a grain of salt. They are pretty hardy. Lions we already discussed, never kept undulated triggers but I don't think they're terrible. No idea on batfish. No sharks; I think you already made this decision, but triggers are a no no with sharks, and zebras get very large.

The tessie you mentioned is quite large... 20-25" might be a better call, though keep in mind total adult size as well.

Everything above would be an incredibly heavily stocked tank... I'd say add things one or two at a time and see how it goes.
 
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