fish suggestions for 125 gallon- puffer pic

You are really pushing your luck Chum imo.They grow to over a foot in length.They will need clams with the shell or shrimp with the shells to help keep the beak trimmed.

 

thats what i have been reading also, i am going to pass on these guys. thanks for the input. still would like to have one more fish. back to the drawing board !

 

Look at "Toby" puffers. Stay much smaller, some are ever good in reefs.

Good starting point would be either a blue spot puffer or a valentini puffer.

 

I don't think his Harlequin will allow smaller fish.

 

Really?

I've never kept a tusk but a good friend had one in his reef with smaller fish (much smaller than a Toby). Every tusk we've gotten in the store has gone in with smaller fish such as blennies and clowns. Just from personal experience in the store tanks, I don't consider tusks any more aggressive than say a melanarus wrasse.

 

All are good reads on tusks. I believe when they say small fish they're talking about fish such as small gobies. I imagine it would take a pretty hungry tusk to go after a fish such as a Toby puffer.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/3/fish

http://www.tfhmagazine.com/saltwate...dy-and-fashionable-the-harlequin-tuskfish.htm

http://m.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15 46 380&pcatid=380

 

a blue spotted puffer is what i was looking at before the dog face. i had read they are fin nippers and would be worried about my moorish idol. it has a 6" streamer and i am afraid it would go pacman munching on it.

 

This has been my experience with them. The older they get the grumpier they become.We had one at our local lfs that would randomly kill tankmates.Most of the time it wouldn't eat them just carry around there dead carcasses.
It may be a male/female thing.

 

that one should have been named jaws !

 

i have a 30% off coupon and may leaving in the morning for a toby puffer. could use some input if any one has some.