Lionfish recommendations!

[extendedmango]

Hi all, I'm currently planning on addingwn a lionfish to my mixed reef. I have a red Sea reefer 250 with a diy hood. I have a 15 gallon aquarium I'm going to attach to form a refugium. I currently have a melanarous wrasse, a hawk fish and a ocellarous clown pair. I'm planning on returning the clowns and hawkfish for store credit and getting a mimic filefish, a bullet goby, a maroon clown, two golden dwarf eels and a lionfish. What type of lionfish would be best for this set up. I really like the antennae lions but Im worried they will murder the fish.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Hi all, I'm currently planning on addingwn a lionfish to my mixed reef. I have a red Sea reefer 250 with a diy hood. I have a 15 gallon aquarium I'm going to attach to form a refugium. I currently have a melanarous wrasse, a hawk fish and a ocellarous clown pair. I'm planning on returning the clowns and hawkfish for store credit and getting a mimic filefish, a bullet goby, a maroon clown, two golden dwarf eels and a lionfish. What type of lionfish would be best for this set up. I really like the antennae lions but Im worried they will murder the fish.

An antennata gets too big for that size tank. Stick with a Dendrochirus species.

Also, maroon clowns get pretty aggressive and can claim that whole tank as it's territory. That's a species to avoid in that size tank.

 

[extendedmango]

An antennata gets too big for that size tank. Stick with a Dendrochirus species.

Also, maroon clowns get pretty aggressive and can claim that whole tank as it's territory. That's a species to avoid in that size tank.

Okay I'll just stick with the dwarf zebra.

On another note, I was under the impression that adding the maroon last to a mostly semi aggressive aquarium would control its aggression. Was this wrong?

 

[eatbreakfast]

Clowns get territorial regardless of the order added. That aggression varies species to species, but maroons are among the most aggressive.

 

[extendedmango]

Clowns get territorial regardless of the order added. That aggression varies species to species, but maroons are among the most aggressive.

Okay, maybe I'll need to rethink the gsm, thanks for the help!