tankmates for my fish? try researching but get conflicting info

[syddakyd]

its so annoying lol.

i have a 125 with a baby snowflake moray eel, a baby volitans lion, and a juvenile dogface puffer. im fully aware of their max sizes which is what i want opinions based on (all max sizes of fish).

some sites say even those 3 current fish i have are bad together (puffer biting eel and lion)....others say they are a very common mix.

anyways...i wanted to get 3 more fish. a yellow tang, lunare wrasse, and a minatus grouper.

if these can not work...can you substitute? i hear a lunare can get extremely nasty...

i know the bio-load will be large and alot of maintenance will be necesarry but i want this to be a show tank that looks sexy lol.

 

[TheSwampFox]

I don't think having that many large bioload fish in your tank is good for the long term health of the inhabitants.

 

[sikoko]

i would nix the yellow tang. as long as the puffer and lion have their own cave and area of the tank they should be ok. as long as you have the filtration to take on that type of bioload i would say do it. all of my tanks have at least twice the amount of filtration per gallon.

 

[TheSwampFox]

i would nix the yellow tang. as long as the puffer and lion have their own cave and area of the tank they should be ok. as long as you have the filtration to take on that type of bioload i would say do it. all of my tanks have at least twice the amount of filtration per gallon.

+1 Filtration would be key in this scenario

 

[syddakyd]

i would nix the yellow tang..

ok. what about the lunare and minatus

 

[sikoko]

i would say the others would be fine together but when the miniatus grouper grows up its tank mates should the same size. you were probably getting conflicting info because a small miniatus is mean but a big one is vicious.

 

[nonstophoops]

I think that the Lunare Wrasse should be skipped in this scenario. The tang will be just fine as well as the grouper. Those five fish will equal a fully stocked tank for sure and you will have to get good filtration and do frequent water changes. You will be fine if you do those things.

 

[syddakyd]

or how about just some smaller fish that can get eaten by the lion that will add some color. recommendations? i just want nice colors and for them to get along with the current stock. current stock is cool and weird...but lacking in color

 

[nonstophoops]

or how about just some smaller fish that can get eaten by the lion that will add some color. recommendations? i just want nice colors and for them to get along with the current stock. current stock is cool and weird...but lacking in color

Can get eaten? That fun won't last long. ha.

I assume you meant won't get eaten. There really isn't much for small fish that won't be eaten in time.

Usually when people decide they want to do a Predator tank, they are choosing to sacrifice the color and different sizes. The grouper and the tang bring some color to the tank.

 

[syddakyd]

yea i meant can't. f' it ill get the tang and the grouper like i originally planned. it wasn't so much that i had wanted a predator tank....its just that most of the fish i wanted were infact predators lol.