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Blownsvt
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yeah i am not worried about my coral at all. Just the snails that are in there. My butterflyfish already took care of the cleaner shrimp i put in a while back. As long as he doesn't start going after my snails it should be good. If he does the LFS said i could bring it back. So far he has not looked at a snail twice.
Had a small Huma in a 130g reef, within months, he ate all the shrimp and used the snails, practicing for a 'shot-put' event, that he was apparently training for. Gave him to a FOWLR friend.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/tank-threads/63397-hundreds-corals-fish-free-3.html
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/tank-threads/63397-hundreds-corals-fish-free-3.html
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Blownsvt
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thats why i made arrangements to bring him back if he becomes trouble. a frined of mine locally has had good luck with these in his tanks so i figured i would try it. Right now he is pretty small so i don't know that he could shot put the big snails in my tank yet but we will see.
Kahuna Tuna
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The most awesome fish I ever owned was a humu trigger back in the day. He would spit water, loved to be scratched, was hand fed and had a personality like a puppy. As cool as that fish was I've never owned another, they are usually very hard on invert clean up types unfortunately. Good luck and I hope you can pull it off, that fish is beautiful.
Blownsvt
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i research every fish purchase i make. I knew exactly what the risks were when i got this fella. Some people have good success and others don't. I would rather try to keep a fish that i really like and have it eat a few cheap snails finding out that i can't have it than never even try just becuase someone says I can't and miss out on keeping a truely awesome fish in the process.
Perfect example. How many people want to keep butterfly fish in their reef but have never tried it just because a book said that you can't do it? Well guess what I have both SPS and LPS in a tank with a butterfly that is deemed not reef safe and he doesn't really bother any of them. This trigger could turn out to be the same way. if not arrangements are already made for him to go back.
Blownsvt
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the only inverts are snails, i don't have any shrimp or crabs etc. Well i tried shrimp but as i said i think the butterfly ate them. I actually talked to sme people who had triggers in with shrimps and he never bothered them. So anything is possible. If he gets nasty he goes back to the store and i get to get something else. Seems like a win/win to me. Either i get to enjoy this awesome fish or i get to go back and get something else.
Ok, I don't want to argue about it, but you were worried about your snails and I was just trying to warn you.
Blownsvt
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I hear ya. Just don't want people thinking I blindly threw a fish into a tank without knowing what the risks were. I contemplated getting this guy for a good while before finally going for it.
stunreefer
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Keep the fish and take the snails back 
Low nutrients keeps algae at bay and you'll have no need for snails anyways
Low nutrients keeps algae at bay and you'll have no need for snails anyways
Blownsvt
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Keep the fish and take the snails back
Low nutrients keeps algae at bay and you'll have no need for snails anyways
if i get to a point where i don't need them i would love to not have them. They make the darn glass messy so i have to clean it every afternoon.
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