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ice fish · Oct 3, 2015

Cool figure 8's. How are they going to do with your grouper? They look snack size

cu455 · Oct 3, 2015

ice fish said:
Cool figure 8's. How are they going to do with your grouper? They look snack size

Thanks they are green spotted puffers.

The grouper is very timid. He is scared of my small mummichogs which were supposed to be feeders. He doesn't bother anyone and does not eat any live food. I have a bunch of ghost shrimp in there and they are fine.

I found all the typical aggressive fish like groupers, sharks, eels and stingrays are very peaceful fish. They eat fish for food. If you feed them well they are usually good.

A Reefer's Girlfriend · Oct 3, 2015

Well I'm pretty gutted right now. My eel apparently decided last night that he wanted to either swim into the powerhead, or climb into the overflow and down the pipe into the return. Either way, it did not end well. I had him for less than two weeks....he was my birthday present to myself, and easily my favorite thing in my tank. RIP little guy

ice fish · Oct 4, 2015

cu455 said:
Thanks they are green spotted puffers.

The grouper is very timid. He is scared of my small mummichogs which were supposed to be feeders. He doesn't bother anyone and does not eat any live food. I have a bunch of ghost shrimp in there and they are fine.

I found all the typical aggressive fish like groupers, sharks, eels and stingrays are very peaceful fish. They eat fish for food. If you feed them well they are usually good.

Ive had similar experiences. But i also take care of a grouper that was just like yours then one day snapped and now is the most aggressive and boss fish in the tank.

ReefSafe123 · Oct 9, 2015

Wow wow any stingray

kozzy · Oct 11, 2015

My blue ribbon eel

BMMMW · Oct 13, 2015

All beautiful looking fish. I will post mine asap.

Ed Menard · Nov 15, 2015

I've now added a humahuma trigger, flamengy tang(sp), orange spot rabbitfish, greenbird wrasse,Miniatus grouper to my tessalatta eel. Tried adding a smaller snowflake but my tess chased it right out of the tank...i'll post pics when I can)

Duke4Life · Nov 15, 2015

Ed Menard said:
I've now added a humahuma trigger, flamengy tang(sp), orange spot rabbitfish, greenbird wrasse,Miniatus grouper to my tessalatta eel. Tried adding a smaller snowflake but my tess chased it right out of the tank...i'll post pics when I can)

That's a cool group. Very nice mixture.

Ed Menard · Nov 15, 2015

Duke4Life said:
That's a cool group. Very nice mixture.

I still intend to add a Spanish hogfish, Cuban hogfish, harlequin tusk, panther grouper and volitan lionfish...trying not to max my bioload just yet)

ice fish · Nov 19, 2015

Ed Menard said:
I still intend to add a Spanish hogfish, Cuban hogfish, harlequin tusk, panther grouper and volitan lionfish...trying not to max my bioload just yet)

And what size tank is this going into...?

BMMMW · Nov 19, 2015

My Harlequin Tusk

azjohnny · Nov 20, 2015

vinnyTAS said:
That groper is awesome. How big is he

Grouper and trigger are both about 7"

Ed Menard · Nov 21, 2015

ice fish said:
And what size tank is this going into...?

400 gallons

ice fish · Nov 22, 2015

Ed Menard said:
400 gallons

Ah. Thats a lot of waste even for a 400 but managable. Would be cool to see that tank when you have them in it

x_burt · Nov 26, 2015

Here's my Golden Puffer, had him a couple of months now, great fish.

ice fish · Nov 27, 2015

Nice puff. Those guys get to be tanks

x_burt · Nov 27, 2015

Thanks. He's putting on size already.

TomatoSauceTy · Dec 30, 2015

I'm so glad I picked up a second leaf, such a beautiful fish. Sorry the tank is dirty and I didn't want to stress the fish out by cleaning.

I was really nervous about adding another since the yellow one has been established and couldn't find information on it and wondered if it was like other fish. I'm pretty sure they aren't fighting as I've seen a video of a leaf and rhino and they knock pretty hard at each other; These two stay about 1/2" apart and sway in sync. It ate ghost shrimp today, so I hope it does well! I would love to add a third since that's how they are in nature, but I will have to see how my water conditions are in the next few months or maybe trade out the lion.