I've recently noticed...

[LadAShark]

So far it's been the Emperor. He's chased everyone in the tank including the clown trigger. He seems like a jealous fish. When I approach the tank he hangs out in front of me and if anyone else wants some face time, he usually chases them off.

Yeah, sounds about right. They're young fish, so the clown won't be that aggressive yet.

 

[LadAShark]

The Emporer Angel, I've seen tanks with Clown and Blueline triggers that the Emporer is the king. People forget about the Blueline, Clown triggers don't even mess with them, it's a mutual respect.

I started with triggers, lions, and puffers. Went into reefs, enjoyed the challenge but frankly doesn't do it for me, after about 4 years went back to my roots; and enjoy it 10 fold. I turned my 90g reef into a dwarf lion tank with an antennata, fuzzy, fu, and a zebra. I'm raising 2 baby triggers, clown and blueline. I just set up a wartskin angler tank. My 210 fowlr has a pinktail and pair of bluejaws, yellow belly dogface, tusk, majestic angel, and an orange shoulder tang. I don't even look at the corals when i go into the stores anymore.

Oh wow, I knew the emperor angelfish was aggressive, but I didn't know it dominated tanks that much.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Well, I have a unopened box that will be a new thread soon in this section.

 

[LadAShark]

This isnt to say that a predatory tank is of a lesser caliber. However the regular novice will quickly exit the hobby when they fail. And fail with a FOWLR. The people who succed to move on I think start with fish, predatory often just as is the nature of the buisness. And move onto reefs.

Your newb saltwater person will be intimidated by keeping coral alive [and for good reason] and will stick to fish for a while, but the vast majority of us whom succeed in our first tanks often move on to reefs. Exploring unknown territory if you will.

Or at least this was my experience. My first tank was a violent one. Most deaths were fight related.

I kept in my hundred gal pred tank(not all at once)

Snowflake eel
Zebra eel
Dragon eel

Stars and stripes puffer
Dogface puffer
Golden puffer (not the blue one)
Porcupine puffer
Niger trigger
Unicorn tang
Powder blue grouper
A few bassalets
And a few assorted queens

Honestly, I still find predator tanks fascinating. The only change in my goal since I started is I want to keep coral withthe predators!

 

[lion king]

Honestly, I still find predator tanks fascinating. The only change in my goal since I started is I want to keep coral withthe predators!

My lionfish tank, and my old angler tank. I'm going to do artificial "Living Color" corals in my new angler tank, I don't want the maintenance.

 

[Mfreddy]

Oh wow, I knew the emperor angelfish was aggressive, but I didn't know it dominated tanks that much.

He pretty much runs the operation. Funny, the Niger which is larger, and he decided to go in a cave together at dusk. Soon the Niger started grunting and came out. No issues since

 

[LadAShark]

He pretty much runs the operation. Funny, the Niger which is larger, and he decided to go in a cave together at dusk. Soon the Niger started grunting and came out. No issues since

Lol.

 

[LadAShark]

That looks really nice!

At the moment, I'm working on a shark pool (600 gallons) with corals in it. I intend to upgrade it to a 1000 gallon aquarium eventually, but for now I'm sticking to a pool as it's cheaper until I find a good glass supplier ;P

 

[lion king]

That looks really nice!

At the moment, I'm working on a shark pool (600 gallons) with corals in it. I intend to upgrade it to a 1000 gallon aquarium eventually, but for now I'm sticking to a pool as it's cheaper until I find a good glass supplier ;P

That would be so awesome, but for me I find my 210 fowlr about max that I could handle.
Maybe if I could afford a maintenance co to take care of it, but that would take all the fun out of it; wouldn't it?