Moray and lion idea for the future.

[the fox]

Ok i am a fresh water person but i have a crazy friend that really whats me to get a salty tank.
There is no way in hell i am getting a reef, but what i would like to do is get a snowflake moray eel and a small lion fish in a three hundred liter tank.
And his plan is that it will cost me R2000 or $300 with every thing like live rock, fish power head but not the tank itself.
Would this work?

Please rember he is crazy

 

[Grins]

large eels have been known to eat lionfish

 

[zhonk]

No matter how cheap you go you will not get away with less than 600. The tank seems a little small as is. The fish will live together provided space.

 

[the fox]

I thought so.
But with the eel eating the lion, how does work they have got all those nasty spikes on them?

 

[zhonk]

I would have thought that a full grown volitan could fend off a snowflake.

 

[the fox]

What do you mean?

 

[the fox]

So are there any other fish that moray will not nail?

 

[zhonk]

I volitan is going to get 12 inches long. A moray will get about 30 inches. If the lion won't work I would go with a bursa trigger. They're full of personality and they're cheap abd easy to care for but you would seriously consider a larger tank if you do.

 

[Grins]

I would have thought that a full grown volitan could fend off a snowflake.

I don't really think of full grown volitan as the small lion that was asked about =)

 

[snowclown]

Go for it Foxy,
I have kept those fish together that you mentioned, since the early eighties, with no problems whatsoever, i have never witnessed, nor have i heard of a snowflake eating a volitan.
I have however had one of my adult Clown Triggers destroy a 13in Volitan, and also witnessed a Cornet fish devour one of my Volitans "WHOLE".
So, don,t worry to much about your choice of tank mates, come on over to the salty side and ENJOY!!