Blue throat behavior

R.W.

R.W.

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I got a blue throat trigger yesterday and i am wondering if it is normal for them to crawl into a cave and hide all day. It isn't eating and is hiding in my rocks. What should i do? I was thinking wait a few days if it doesn't appear to be eating get it into quarantine and spot feed it. I am feeding Marine Cuisine.
any help?
 
blue throats r real shy at first. give him a day or two. u can also shoot the food in the direction that he is hiding.
 
There's one at my lfs that hides most of the time. If you camp out in front of his tank for a few minutes and he feels comfortable around you, he'll swim up to the front and look at you like he's a dog.
 
Very shy when introduced...In fact, I just got the closely related Sargassum Trigger a week ago, took about 48 hours but now he won't leave the front of the tank....Offer a few different foods for him, it won't take long.
 
ReefDava, mine hid for a full 2 weeks and started coming out very slowly. He was very frightened by any movement by the tank. Now at 6 weeks (yes, he is my newest and most favorite fish), he is out and about all the time. so be patient and you will have a great fish that is fascinating just to watch swim!
 
oh ok, thanks for your input ssavader. I saw mine come out for a few seconds about 10 mins ago lol. I am wondering if i should get him a mate. I have a female on hold with my fish guy. Do you think a female would be a great addition for him?
 
I added a female blue throat to my tank in hopes of changing the male's behaviour and giving him some company. On a good day, they ignored each other. On a bad day, the male chased her around the tank at violent speeds breaking coral as they went. (I would come home to see giant scars on the sides of the two of them and broken pieces of SPS).

In the end, I had the get rid of the male because he became "sterotypy"...repetitive pacing (swimming) behaviour back and forth across the front of the tank. The pattern was so consistent that he began to wear away the acrylic of the tank with his skin! He would only stop this swimming pattern to eat, then he would resume.

In case you are wondering...my tank is 400 gallons, and the blue throats were/are about 6". I still have the female, but she is showing the same kind of behaviour.

My conclusion is that when they reach adulthood, they seem unsuitable for captivity in anything but an exceptionally large tank.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12286286#post12286286 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Untamed12
I added a female blue throat to my tank in hopes of changing the male's behaviour and giving him some company. On a good day, they ignored each other. On a bad day, the male chased her around the tank at violent speeds breaking coral as they went. (I would come home to see giant scars on the sides of the two of them and broken pieces of SPS).

In the end, I had the get rid of the male because he became "sterotypy"...repetitive pacing (swimming) behaviour back and forth across the front of the tank. The pattern was so consistent that he began to wear away the acrylic of the tank with his skin! He would only stop this swimming pattern to eat, then he would resume.

In case you are wondering...my tank is 400 gallons, and the blue throats were/are about 6". I still have the female, but she is showing the same kind of behaviour.

My conclusion is that when they reach adulthood, they seem unsuitable for captivity in anything but an exceptionally large tank.
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I've a pair that's about 3 1/4" but it's the female that does the pacing in the back side of the glass and glad the tank is glass.
 
While the scratching of the tank was the final straw, the behaviour itself suggests that the fish is not comfortable in captivity. It is the same sort of thing you used to see in the old crappy zoos when the large cats were kept in small cages.
 
I bought my blue throat the day it arrived from Hawaii. It ate mysis at the store. I put him in QT and within hours he was out and about.

When added to the DT it took him only a matter of hours to come out. Its been 4 days and he cruises the tank and eats all kinds of frozen and flaked foods. What a great fish!

He did take over one of the rocks of my purple tang so there has been some confrontations and scratches in the past few days.
 
My blue throat will eat mysis and all of the ocean nutrition flakes. Like others said, they are VERY shy in the begining. Mine will eat out of my hand now after a month or so. Very cool fish! :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12295420#post12295420 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nuuze
My blue throat will eat mysis and all of the ocean nutrition flakes. Like others said, they are VERY shy in the begining. Mine will eat out of my hand now after a month or so. Very cool fish! :)
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Ha...ha...that's fun until their teeth come in! Mine drew blood from a few people, including me. Not agressive...just has trouble distinguishing exactly when to stop chewing....
 
Is that what I'm starting to hear when it gets food off the water surface? Sounds like teeth grinding noise.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12301386#post12301386 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nuuze
Is that what I'm starting to hear when it gets food off the water surface? Sounds like teeth grinding noise.
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No..that's not their teeth. They (and I think most Triggers) can make a sort of "grunt" noise. I don't know technically how they produce it. I've heard stories of some learning to "ask" for food that way.

Of course, there can also be a pretty loud "suck" noise when they take items from the surface.
 
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