Display refugium with frogfish and / or eel together with mantis?

[Podle]

I am currently building a reef aquarium and are planning to have a DSB refugium (140 ltr / 37 gal) in the stand. I have made a window in the stand so that the fuge will be a "display refugium".
My plan was to have a peacock mantis in it, but I´m also a big fan of frogfish and eels... is it possible to keep these devils together, or will it create mayhem in my fuge?

 

[Cleo642]

Look like your setting up the ultimate cage fight. Lol

 

[Reeferdude56]

You could definitely have a frogfish and eel together. I would make sure the eel is a invert eating eel not a fish eater. I would also make sure to buy a small frogfish and make sure the eel is at least 2X larger. I would do the mantis shrimp because the frogfish may try to eat him and he may kill the frogfish.

 

[Cleo642]

You could definitely have a frogfish and eel together. I would make sure the eel is a invert eating eel not a fish eater. I would also make sure to buy a small frogfish and make sure the eel is at least 2X larger. I would do the mantis shrimp because the frogfish may try to eat him and he may kill the frogfish.

You mean you wouldn't do the frogfish?

 

[Reeferdude56]

No I wouldn't do the mantis. Both the mantis and the eel would eat inverts and they may attack each other over food.

 

[Cleo642]

No I wouldn't do the mantis. Both the mantis and the eel would eat inverts and they may attack each other over food.

Lol, that's way I said it's the ultimate cage fight.

 

[Podle]

Thanks for your input guys!
I guess I´ll have to come up with a new plan
I have another fuge (60 ltr / 16 gal) that will gravity feed down into MD. This will be a nursery for pods and other snacks, and my plan was to keep only shrimps here, but maybe that could be an alternative to put a small frogfish in here and the mantis down in the big fuge?

 

[Reefcowboy]

If you are getting a fuge for extra room for other fish, animals it would work. If you are getting a fuge to help control nitrates be careful as eels and frog fish can produce greater amounts of waste(in case you aim for lower nutrients, sps corals ).

Good luck

 

[Reeferdude56]

If you plumbed it with the overflow coming out of the back, not the bottom. You could have a little refugium next to the tank with some mangroves and a mantis shrimp. I think that would absolutely look awesome with a bunch of macro algae.

 

[trio91]

If you plumbed it with the overflow coming out of the back, not the bottom. You could have a little refugium next to the tank with some mangroves and a mantis shrimp. I think that would absolutely look awesome with a bunch of macro algae.

would you happen to have a diagram on that? i am looking to do a similar set up and i am more a "visual" person. i would to see it for the plumbing and the routes that will require....{sorry to ask you for so much....just took a shot in the dark}

 

[Reeferdude56]

would you happen to have a diagram on that? i am looking to do a similar set up and i am more a "visual" person. i would to see it for the plumbing and the routes that will require....{sorry to ask you for so much....just took a shot in the dark}

Honestly I don't know where to find that. One visual example would be of Mr. Saltwater tanks interview of Julian sprungs tank. It has a similar system setup that I was talking about.

 

[trio91]

ty sir