to Harlequin Tusk or not to

[Otherone]

I've got a oppritunity to get a 6" Tusk for $70 - boy is this really tempting!
To sweetin' the pot we've got some type of monster living in the rock pile that needs destoryed - lost without a trace the hippo tang and yellow watchmen goby as well as quite a few inverts.

My current stock is - Scopus Tang, Coral Beauty Angel, Damsel, Royal Gramma and a Morphing Clown - ya morphing - he's going from orange to black. 2 turbo snails, a handful of atlantic snails, 2 redleg hermits, 2 peppermint shrimp, 2 conchs, and a cucumber. Not much coral - 1 poylp rock and 2 georganians.

Lost - 2 fish, 20+ snails, Cucumber (died in Powerhead), Leaf slugs, 10+ Hermits, 2 peppermint shrimp - best guess hitchiker crab or mantis shrimp.

What do you think and what else that isn't common online info knowledge about Tusks should i know?

Before you ask - Water - Tank + Sump 210gal. 76-77 degrees, Salinity 1.025, A-0, N-0, N-10ppm before weekly 25 gal w/c , skimmer fills up once a week, Algae none exsistant.

 

[krichardson]

One of my favorite salt fish,had one before but a few questions...are you saying that this monster has killed or eaten those fish that you've mentioned?Do you intend for the tusk to go after the monster?

 

[FLESHY]

Tusks need at least a 180g tank IMO...I had one for a short period of time, and came to that conclusion.

They can also be very aggressive, like mine was, attacking everything I added to the tank almost immediately.

You can kiss all those inverts goodbye, and the sea cucumber is going to be nibbled on until it nukes in your tank I would guess.

Awesome fish...just realize if you are getting this fish that you are making a conversion to a FOWLR tank basically or one with corals, aggressive fish, and no CUC.

 

[Otherone]

One of my favorite salt fish,had one before but a few questions...are you saying that this monster has killed or eaten those fish that you've mentioned?Do you intend for the tusk to go after the monster?

Would be nice or absomuthafreakinlotley - badass fish

 

[Otherone]

Tusks need at least a 180g tank IMO...I had one for a short period of time, and came to that conclusion.

They can also be very aggressive, like mine was, attacking everything I added to the tank almost immediately.

You can kiss all those inverts goodbye, and the sea cucumber is going to be nibbled on until it nukes in your tank I would guess.

Awesome fish...just realize if you are getting this fish that you are making a conversion to a FOWLR tank basically or one with corals, aggressive fish, and no CUC.

I like the last paragraph - everything I'd have hoped read

 

[joey4664]

it depends on if its Australian or philly? ive only had luck with one filly after buying like 4 and the aussie i had lasted about 7 or 8 years in a 150 gallon. just be ready to start losing your snails, shrimp

 

[stopsharkfinning]

i have had a couple over the last 15 years, did not find them to agressive i have had them in a reef tanks and found them quite peaceful

 

[FLESHY]

I like the last paragraph - everything I'd have hoped read

Figured I would warn you, I never would have guessed the way it behaved having read "semi-aggressive".

it depends on if its Australian or philly? ive only had luck with one filly after buying like 4 and the aussie i had lasted about 7 or 8 years in a 150 gallon. just be ready to start losing your snails, shrimp

I think mine was african? At least that is what my wholesaler said.

i have had a couple over the last 15 years, did not find them to agressive i have had them in a reef tanks and found them quite peaceful

All fish are different...what did you have him with. Mine got to be like three inches (Started out barely an inch) and literally the second I added a pair of clownfish to the opposite end of the tank he immediately cruised over and took a visible chunk out of one of their pectoral fins.

 

[nonstophoops]

Figured I would warn you, I never would have guessed the way it behaved having read "semi-aggressive".



I think mine was african? At least that is what my wholesaler said.



All fish are different...what did you have him with. Mine got to be like three inches (Started out barely an inch) and literally the second I added a pair of clownfish to the opposite end of the tank he immediately cruised over and took a visible chunk out of one of their pectoral fins.

It may have been collected in Africa, but same ocean, the Indian.

I can attest first hand to his Tusk going into kill mode on everything new he added and getting aggressive towards fish already in the tank that he had been cool with.

 

[FLESHY]

It may have been collected in Africa, but same ocean, the Indian.

I can attest first hand to his Tusk going into kill mode on everything new he added and getting aggressive towards fish already in the tank that he had been cool with.

Yea it was after Dustin and I's foster trip...we were acclimating my stuff and making fish food...tusk was killing everything.