I will preface this by saying I am an obsessive planner, so I like to know what I am doing *well* in advance of doing it--meaning I will likely ask a lot of stupid questions since this is entirely new to me.
I have never had a tank with predators. The closest I have had to something scary was my Magnificent Foxface who, aside from being venomous, was peaceful to the point of being timid. However, I completely fell in love with the Red Bandtail Waspfish, which then led to me looking into other predator fish. Ideally, I would like to set up a tank of only small predators that can live together without any sort of '80s slasher movie style massacre.
This is a dream list, and I would appreciate any and all input, additional options, etc. Keeping in mind, of course, that I am new to this (although not new to saltwater) so it would be better to avoid species that are difficult to keep/feed.
I mainly would like to know which, if any, of these could share a tank, without that tank being enormous. Ideally, I would like to be in the 90 gallon or less range for tank size.
I have never had a tank with predators. The closest I have had to something scary was my Magnificent Foxface who, aside from being venomous, was peaceful to the point of being timid. However, I completely fell in love with the Red Bandtail Waspfish, which then led to me looking into other predator fish. Ideally, I would like to set up a tank of only small predators that can live together without any sort of '80s slasher movie style massacre.
This is a dream list, and I would appreciate any and all input, additional options, etc. Keeping in mind, of course, that I am new to this (although not new to saltwater) so it would be better to avoid species that are difficult to keep/feed.
I mainly would like to know which, if any, of these could share a tank, without that tank being enormous. Ideally, I would like to be in the 90 gallon or less range for tank size.
- Red Bandtail Waspfish: This is the one that started my obsession, but I am open to swapping this out for the Rooster Waspfish if that will work better with the sizes/types of others I am interested in
- Yellow Spot Scorpionfish
- Wartskin Angler: Open to other angler variants too, but I didn't know if these would work at all with venomous fish
- Antennata Lionfish
- Dwarf Zebra Lionfish
- Fu Manchu Lionfish
- Mombasa Lionfish
- Leaf Fish
- Ghoul: I assume these are ridiculously rare, but it is the coolest thing I have ever seen