niger attacked my foxface

[46bfinGA]

attacked his eyes.i had to put the foxface in my sump.what do you think i should do for the foxface?they have been together for four months and all of a sudden the niger started picking on him.

 

[Andrew]

I would try to put the foxface in a hospital tank to issolate him and let him get better and hind a new home for the trigger. Triggers can get aggressive twards other fish.

 

[46bfinGA]

well hes in with a humu trigger.goldentail,chainlink,and fuzzy lion fish.so i need to find a new home for the foxface i guess.hopefully hell make it.

 

[Andrew]

If the Niger Trigger is the one thats causing problems then get rid of him and solve the problem before he starts to go after your other fish.

 

[46bfinGA]

that sucks and that was my favorite fish.i havent seen any aggresion towards any of the other fish.

 

[Jim_S]

Yeah, bummer.

I hear so much talk about how nigers are docile triggers, IME, my niger was one of the most aggressive fish I have ever owned. It wreaked havok on my tank.

But all fish are diffrent. Some fish you buy and they are model citizens, others act like Terrell Owens and ruin a perfetly good thing.

Jim

 

[Andrew]

Are your other fish getting along? Its strange for a Niger Trigger to be that aggressive because they are one of the least aggressive triggers. Can you list the sizes of the fish also you have.

 

[DesertBandits]

Aren't all those fish in a 55gal? As those fish start to grow up of course theres goint to be a war. Seems like a small amount of space. Wouldn't a 75 or 90 be more appropriate?

 

[spamin76]

Nigers tend to be docile but that doesn't mean they don't display aggressive behavior. They can get quite aggressive in bursts or just in terms of a particular specimen

 

[cjvolitan]

Damn nigers are suposed to be on of the least aggressive trigers. But as u can see from others experiences some triggers even the peacfulone can flip out and damage their fellow tank mates.
niger i had was a peacful one hope the next one i get is just as nice

 

[Titan*69]

Yeah spamin sort've hit in on the head with jolts of aggression,rather than relentless killin on the brain.Our Niger is around 7" right now and he knows he's the toughest and once in a while he displays it.When our Hummu first went in the tank (after the Niger) the Niger was out for blood.Now he's cool with him and once in a while he shows the bully syndrome.By a quick burst of speed towards the Hummu which makes him bolt but more or less being a jerk.He will not bother our puffer or any invert in the tank....go figure.....

 

[Petstorejunkie]

typical trigger, it WILL happen with every trigger someday. it is just a matter of when, and dont count on him not removing eyeballs, he's found a taste for them now, and he wont stop until everyone is blind. trust me i have seen a trigger eat thousands of dollars worth of fish eyeballs!

 

[nataz]

i have one and he's cool but he has no was of know if the foxface did something and the niger hade enough of him so why single out the trigger?

 

[eastcoastzigzag]

how big is ur niger? mine is super docile but only about 4inches. hes in a reef tank w/ a yellow tang, flame angel, fuzzy lion and a long nose hawk fish for friends. all living happily in a 65

 

[stevebydac]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6433770#post6433770 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Petstorejunkie
typical trigger, it WILL happen with every trigger someday. it is just a matter of when

You're stretching the truth more than a little.

I've kept clown, niger, picasso, undulatus, queen, and bluethroat triggers at various times over the course of the last 18 years or so. I've had tiny ones and big ones. Probably about 14 in all. I've rarely been without at least one in my tanks. Triggers vary greatly in their personalities, by species and by individual.

For example, I've kept three different clown triggers in the 4-10" size. One of them killed small fish but left everything else completely alone. Another tried to kill or harass everything put in with it. Yet the third (the biggest!) was as laid back as possible.

Queens are supposed to be nasty -- mine was an angel. I think I had two picassos, one small, one large, and both were mild-mannered. I had three nigers, while two of them were nasty, one was fantastic as a tankmate. My bluethroat was scared of everyone. And the three undulatus I tried for brief amounts of time were meaner than hell, and they were small. My pinktail was great.

Triggers CAN BE nasty, as 46bfinGA is finding. But nigers, for this example, can also be pretty friendly. I had one that was.

 

[Teremei]

Those nigers are aggressive.