Best predator fish for a 90 gallon?

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I have a 90 us gallon freshwater tank that id like to convert into a saltwater fish only predator tank? Suggestions welcome
 
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I have a 75 gallon tank with 3 dwarf lionfish and 2 snowflake eels in it

What do you want to keep?

Just do it. No Great White Sharks in 90 gallons though.
I love the idea of keeping snowflakes! lionfish i wouldn't mind either

I like puffers too but if im not wrong all the saltwater puffers would eventually be to large for a 90?

Maybe even a smaller trigger? im not aware of the smaller types
 

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Saltwater animals quite often have species that will work in smaller tanks and others that require huge ones.
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I like puffers too but if im not wrong all the saltwater puffers would eventually be to large for a 90?
There are a lot of puffers that stall small and would be fine in a 90. It does rule out dogface, porcupine, and stars and stripes, which are personally my favorite.
I agree with @WVNed just pick an online vendor and start looking at the fish in the categories that are predatory species.

I would also look into some of the non-reef safe wrasses for a predator tank, but I'm not sure which ones stay small enough for a 90g tank. I absolutely love the look of lunar wrasses but I know they get too big for a 90.
 

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Here's my 90g venom predator tank, 4 lions and a rhino. Eels are good too, if you are going to include fish, pebbletooths like a snowflake or skelator. Really no trigger that work forever in a 90g

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