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Feeding my aggressive fishes

Trying to feed some squid to my eel. But my other fishes snatching it away. You can hear the clicking of the triggerfishes teeth. The debris in the water is brine shrimp if anyone is wondering.
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75 Gallon; 2x Acei’s 1x Midnight blue Peacock 1x Red Peacock 1x Brasileinsis 2x Electric Yellow 1x Electric Blue 1x Rusty Peacock 1x 4inch Albino Algae Eater 1x Chinese Algae Eater 2x Bristlenose (male & female) 1x Spiny (Tyre Track) Eel 1x Australian Shortfin Eel (approx 50cm) 5x Mystery Snails Steady stock of live feed including; “freshwater Ghost Shrimp, Gold Cresent Shrimp, feeder fish & blackworms.” Medium-Heavily Planted; Amazon swords, Hygro, Java moss, Java fern, Lizard tail, Aliminium, Spatts, Dwarf pongol, Couple varieties of Valisneria, Anubis on driftwood. Running on four filters. two small corner filters with activated carbon & Ammonia remover on both back corners, Two jet flow filters, one being much smaller and with a dripping arm extention to reduce the current in the water, also in addition to the extention, i get a running water sound! 1x approx 17inch submergable heater. A few small ornaments. A few sea shells. 3x Aqua Glo T8 lights on lid (1x 20watt, 2x 30watt), however only using 1x 30watt (time period: 0730-2000). White Cichlid crush for substrate Water PH average 7.4 can raise up to 8.0. average temperature of between 26-28 degrees celcius. Feed: live blackworms and shrimp, frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, small and medium floating cichlid pellets, white crane Super G pellets with 5% spirulina, cichlid flake, algae bits, feeder fish.en re-introduced to the community, was not welcome back.

Invertebrate eaters?

Will any of these fishes try eat a blood red fire shrimp, hermit crabs, star fish, or clams?

Magnificent Foxface
Copperband Butterflyfish
Raccoon Butterflyfish
Teardrop Butterflyfish
Falcula Butterflyfish
Golden Semilarvatus Butterflyfish
Blue/Green Reef Chromis
Ocellaris Clownfish
Green Mandarin Goby
Spotted Mandarin Goby
Yellow Tang
Blue Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Longfin Fairy Wrasse

I know the butterflys will try to eat the corals so doing a reef tank will be out of the question. Really want to do a reef tank but can’t have the butterfly eating at my money through corals. Also are all these fishes compatible with each other…I’m planning on having at least a 200 gallon setup.
Are there any corals that I may be able to have in the tank despite the butterflys?

Is my red eared slider turtle eating?

i have a baby red eared slider. ive had it for two months and ive been feeding it food stick for carnivorous fishes and really little brine shrimps. i dont know if hes been eating it. i think hes eating it because wouldnt he be dead if he hasnt eaten for 2 months? today i moved him to a new tank and i saw him take a bite of the fish food, and he spit it back out, what does that mean?

My baby Red Eared Slider won’t eat!?

I got him last week. I feed him food sticks for carnivorous fishes. I also tried flakes dried brine shrimps from my betta food. I don’t think he will eat turtle food either because I saw it and it looks exactly like the food sticks I feed him. All he does is hide under the bridge thing. I keep him at room temperature.
I sometimes have a lamp on him when I think it is too cold but it doesn’t make a difference because he hides from it anyway. And I really don’t prefer to buy live food.

how can they eat so much?!?

alright, this has been going on for a while and i need to know where my fish packs those pounds away! i have 3 fishes in a 50 gallon tank, we have plants n rocks n large shells and some fixtures that should serve as cover. well on Sunday my mom bought about 5 dozen guppies avg 2.5cm in length and probably 5 dozen brine shrimp also avg 2 cm in length. today is monday… and i cant find ANY guppies or shrimp!

heres what i got in the tank

a tiger oscar whose about 10 inches in length, had her for several years ever since she was little ^^

some unknown fish who manged to survive not being eaten by my oscar.. its around 4-5 inches in length and circle shaped with black stripes going down a silver body

and a recently added red tilapia who has added by my dad who came home from a fishing trip.. my dad threw it in and it sank to the bottom. he told me to lift it up holding it about 2 inches from the surface of the water to help it regain it self. and, well its scared but alive.
kinda ran out room but ya.. how can 3 fish, mostly just 2 because i doubt the tilapia ate anything being so scared, but ya… my fishes seem to never hunt during the day, because during the day food can swim right in front of her mouth and she does nothing.. but once night hits and i wake up the next morning half the tank is missing! lmao. so how can they eat 120 pieces of food within about 2 days and not be sluggish or tired looking or fat looking at all? either they have an insanely high metabolism or theres something else living in that tank…that foods supposed to last a at least a week or 2.. and with them eating a week+ worth of food in 2 days! WTH?! lol
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i googled mono fish it and no its not that, this circular fish is more like a blue gill.. it has about 5 black stripes running down its plain grey/silver body. if the sun hits its side while no lights are on in the house it has a purpleish gleam
ahhhh one more question, we also had a 4inch Royal Catfish (black spotted lots of big fins), hoped it would help keep the tank clean.. along with some peach colored sucker fish.. and i think my fish ate those to o.O but the weird thing is waking up and not find any part of the fish left?! youd think if it was a big ol 4inch cat fish with lots of fins and also pretty fast you’d find some carcase left somewhere.. but there absolutely no trace at all ><
nope its not a tiger barb..

ya ive checked everywhere to see if they were hiding some where.. all i found was 1 lonely shrimp hanging out by the side of a rock..

its not really that many rocks n shells, we have 1 flat rock, 1 big shell, 2 plants.. 2 are floating, a small rock castle made of large-ish funky shaped rocks stacked on top of each other, and anchor looking thing, and a tunnel type thing. searched everyone.. and only that 1 shrimp was found.. and small shells are the place to. the bottom is all small rocks.. but still!!! how can they eat that much food in such a short period of time and not look any different?!