Because they grow to be 2-3 feet long and will eat anything smaller than a blue tang.
I’m really starting to get annoyed with your retailer. Did he not have one of those little snowflake eels or one of those cute little baby black and white Dalmatian panther grouper fish? Or is he just holding out with the good stuff on you till later?
I didn’t know this about the engineer goby! I rely on liveaquaria for a lot of my fish info and then forums, etc. the lion fish is so cool. I’m more into the exotic fish.
I think my ideal stocking is going to be:
3 blotched anthias
1 gem tang
A goby pistol shrimp combo
2 fire fish
maybes:
Mandarin goby
Blue spotted jawfish; so bummed mine jumped.
Clarkiis
Damsel
Some type of wrasse
I’d prefer quality fish over quantity.
So it looks like I may have to re-home the lion. Even though it’s such a bad ass little guy. I have no intentions on keeping the 32g up and running.
coral wise: I really like the zoas, Palys, bubbles, and euphillia. The complexity of the lobos really
Catch my attention. Acans and blastos. The SPS like Acoras don’t really catch my eye, but who knows? Maybe with time. Montis are very cool
Though.
For aquascaping I cheated on the one stand alone “tree” Caribsea has a kit with a rod that I used for that structure.