Tank specs: 50 gallon truvu grow out tank. 50 lbs of sand, 20 gallon sump, homemade skimmer, 5 gallon refugium, 2 250watt radium 20K Halides, Mag 9 return pump. A few other frags, a hippo tang, a flounder, 4 snails, and 1 hermit crab.
Thank you! Awesome set up. I was really impressed. Being the new guy it was nice to put faces to names. I'll be more prepared to buy some frags next time.
Okay... Here goes. (wife)My wife had to get a Pinktail Triggerfish. It's a beautiful Hawaiian about 8". It's swimming around my 270g tank (soon to be reef) like a Nascar driver. "Left turn! Left turn! Hey! Another left turn!!! He's housed with a very mellow Regal angel that's bigger, yellow tang, clown, flame angel, and 3 chromis. The only thing I have seen him do was over turn one snail. Yesterday I got a Blue Hippo Tang the same size of the trigger. The usually scuffle took place, probably from the them being the same size and both cruise the tank in the same manner. It's seem today they are doing fine.
(scratch)My question (finally) is what do you think about Triggers in a reef tank? Has anyone had success with them, particularly with the Pinktail? Online the Pinktail IS consider reef safe and the Pinktail IS NOT considered reef safe. I am trying to decide whether to leave him of pull him out before my tanks gets fill up with more rock work.
I appreciate your thoughts and wisdom.
I have a 37g seahorse tank and I am constantly fighting cyano from feeding frequently and having to use a weak water flow for them. I changed my water more frequently, added some phosban, and got a sea hare. The sea hare eats hair algae and cyano! I did this about 3-4 weaks ago and my problem is 98% gone.
I looking for some nice pieces. Usually I run into the ugly round or flat rocks that are really heavy. I'm looking for some large pieces for my 270. How much did you want for them?