Trigger and Lionfish-bad, bad tankmates

[Frost3839]

I had a clown trigger and 2 large lions with no problems. clown trigger beat up a lot of things in my tank. but never touched the lions

 

[wyoung609]

What about housing planktonic feeding triggers of different a species i.e. sargassum and blue throat or crosshatch all in the same tank?

 

[Wolverine]

What about housing planktonic feeding triggers of different a species i.e. sargassum and blue throat or crosshatch all in the same tank?

In a very large tank it can be done. If there's not enough room, those usually well-behaved fish will show their "trigger" side.

 

[cichlidsrcool]

I had a Lion and Niger Trigger years ago with No issues

 

[alpineroush]

I want to get a 240 fowler and was wanting a niger and lion. in what order do i put them in the tank do to domination.

 

[namxas]

Lionfish first...be sure its established, conditioned, and weaned before it has any distractions.

 

[tigerfan90]

lion fish and triggers

lion fish and triggers

We have a 265 gallon with a volitan, clown trigger and porcupine puffer.... so far so good .... but all were bought at same time and same size .... the clown trigger is more aggressive than clowns I have had in the past but he seems to leave those guys well enough alone.

 

[namxas]

Hope you don't have any trouble, but this is what normally happens:

Lionfish vs Triggerfish

 

[stk731]

I have clown trigger, lion, and porc puffer no problems

 

[stk731]

Had a porc puffer and lionfish together no problems until the yellowhead moray made a snack of the lion

 

[SantaMonica]

I did not know about this bad combo till now.

 

[boakley]

Thanks for the post. Wanted to set up an aggressive tank with these two but I guess not now

 

[brilanna]

I feel like this is a perfect topic, as I woke up the other morning to find my dwarf lionfish dead and my niger trigger pretty beat up

 

[brilanna]

Now I didn't see them fight, but can only assume the trigger killed the lion, and the trigger was stung / injured and got picked at over night

 

[namxas]

Nigers are "iffy" with lionfishes, even tho they aren't true "reef" triggers. Xanthicthys sp. are about the best with lionfishes, as they're planktonic feeders.

 

[Daniel Machado]

Would a buffalo trunkfish, Lactophrys trigonus, be a good tankmate for lions in a 200g tank?

And what about a clown filefish, Cantherhines macrocerus?

I have the chance to get both in a nice size but don't want to risk my lions' health.

Best regards.

Daniel.

 

[bryanr]

Glad I saw this I was about to look into a lionfish to go with my 5" pink tail

 

[demo07dn]

what would be a good companion for a lion fish?

 

[sharklover567]

That is an awesome video!

Love your quote from Budhha.Kind of describes what I'm going through on this forum.

 

[nathan1986]

I know what people say how its bad and what not, maybe I lucked out but I had a huma huma trigger, porcupine puffer, dwarf fuzzy lion and antenna lion in the same tank for 2 years. didn't have one issue aside from the trigger being the more dominate when it came to feeding time. I think it all depends on the fishies personality