triggerfish in reef with anthians and chromis??

[acebigalowe]

If it's in the budget, a crosshatch or two. From what I see on tv, it is tax season! Was lucky to look after a pair for a while. I personally have a male bluejaw in one reef and a sargassum in another. All couldn't be any nicer.

 

[CHSUB]

Sweet keep us posted

will do!!

Nice choice. I have a fairly new pair of BT's in my tank that have been model citizens. They haven't bothered anything including anthias or CUC. They are poop factories though!

hoping for the same!!!

If it's in the budget, a crosshatch or two. From what I see on tv, it is tax season! Was lucky to look after a pair for a while. I personally have a male bluejaw in one reef and a sargassum in another. All couldn't be any nicer.

had the wife pick, luckily she like the BT. rare to pick the cheaper one!!!!



Ordered from PetSolutions, first time live fish from them and fish looks great. half the price of LA....

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[fishfreak2009]

I currently have a 5 inch Niger in quarantine with some small damsels, a bunch of butterflies, a regal angel, a pair of banggai cardinalfish, and a large pink square anthias. He doesn't bother anyone. As soon as he's done with quarantine, he's going in the 180 with all the other fish including a pinktail trigger.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I would like to get another niger trigger,but that wouldn't work out with my clams.
Has antone kept a BT with clams.

 

[BigBlueTang]

I would like to get another niger trigger,but that wouldn't work out with my clams.

Has antone kept a BT with clams.

I highly, highly doubt a trigger would ever go after a clam. Even the aggressive ones. CUC will probably need to be restocked every so often.

Did your Niger go after clams? Like you saw him eating them?

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I have never had both at the same time.I thought it would be a bad idea.I have two squamosa clams that are about 7" long and would hate to loose them.If it is safe I may try a Niger trigger.

 

[CHSUB]

mr. trigger is in his new home and doing quite well. all his tank mates are not concerned about his presents and he has found a nice sleeping/hiding hole. during manual feeding time he hides in his hole, but he has adjusted to the auto feeder and vigorously competes for food with the much larger tangs.

a great addition!!!!!:bounce3:

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[fishfreak2009]

Well my 340 has the pinktail, the niger, and a bluethroat in it now along with all the small fish (lots of chromis, damsels, anthias, even a firefish and a couple other gobies), and none of the triggers bother the small fish or each other. I did try to add a pair of cleaner shrimp though (put them in before I moved the triggers into the big tank) and they lasted less than 12 hours. Triggers seemed to ignore them until I came home from work one afternoon and the pinktail had antennae hanging out of his mouth. Haven't seen any signs of the other cleaner shrimp so I assume its gone as well.

 

[64Ivy]

Had a supposedly reef safe Crosshatch gnaw a Green Chromis in half right in front of me once. No more Triggers in reef tanks for me, thank you.

 

[anbosu]

Had a supposedly reef safe Crosshatch gnaw a Green Chromis in half right in front of me once. No more Triggers in reef tanks for me, thank you.

Xhatches seem to eat smaller fish more frequently than some of the others mentioned. I think it's mostly since they get pretty large.

 

[fishfreak2009]

I think a large portion of it has to do with feeding as well. I feed a large quantity of a wide variety of foods (flake, NLS pellets, mysid, spirulina brine, baby brine, and rods food) 4x daily and also get 3 clams on the half shell and 2 sheets of nori daily. My triggers are fat, growing fast, and don't seem to care about one another or the little fish. The three triggers (Niger, pinktail, and bluethroat) school with a large pink square anthias, 2 dispar anthias, an evansi anthias, 4 bicolor chromis, 5 green chromis, 5 lemon damsels, a pajama cardinalfish, a banggai cardinalfish, and a firefish.

 

[shred5]

mr. trigger is in his new home and doing quite well. all his tank mates are not concerned about his presents and he has found a nice sleeping/hiding hole. during manual feeding time he hides in his hole, but he has adjusted to the auto feeder and vigorously competes for food with the much larger tangs.

a great addition!!!!!:bounce3:

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He looks nice.
What you feeding in your automatic feeder that he eats?

 

[makers marc]

Eh. I'd sacrifice the lives of a few chromis to keep a trigger lol

Xhatches seem to eat smaller fish more frequently than some of the others mentioned. I think it's mostly since they get pretty large.

 

[CHSUB]

got home from work yesterday around 6:30 pm, no trigger swimming around???:sad1: after a search, found him in the clutches of a half dollar sized gorilla crab, dead of course! he had some of his tail and lower body eaten, but imo it appeared post-mortem. i don't think the crab killed him, but not sure? i know fish sometimes die, but this is a shock! any ideas or thoughts?

 

[dweber618]

got home from work yesterday around 6:30 pm, no trigger swimming around???:sad1: after a search, found him in the clutches of a half dollar sized gorilla crab, dead of course! he had some of his tail and lower body eaten, but imo it appeared post-mortem. i don't think the crab killed him, but not sure? i know fish sometimes die, but this is a shock! any ideas or thoughts?

Sorry for the loss I've actually been following when you post on your trigger because I've been debating on adding a male, I've seen a few pop up on diver's den and have been tempted.

Did you QT him? I can't imagine a crab that small could even pick him off while sleeping.

 

[shred5]

Sorry for the loss, I have no idea what could have caused it. I just lost a healthy anthias, just disappeared.

Dweber618 get one, It is the best fish I have had, It is not shy and has huge personality. They are extremely intelligent and curious fish. He bothers nothing and nothing bothers him. He eats everything and anything.

He did go after some extremely small chromis once, they were tiny and he thought oh food when I dropped them in. I put the chromis in my frag tank for a month and fattened them up and gave them time to grow and he is fine with them now.. They were really small at first.

 

[dweber618]

Sorry for the loss, I have no idea what could have caused it. I just lost a healthy anthias, just disappeared.

Dweber618 get one, It is the best fish I have had, It is not shy and has huge personality. They are extremely intelligent and curious fish. He bothers nothing and nothing bothers him. He eats everything and anything.

He did go after some extremely small chromis once, they were tiny and he thought oh food when I dropped them in. I put the chromis in my frag tank for a month and fattened them up and gave them time to grow and he is fine with them now.. They were really small at first.

Thanks Shred - how big is your tank? I'm on the fence about being "that guy" that puts him in a 4' tank (48*24*20). But I've seen differing opinions/details on their max size.

CHSUB - I just see that you did have in QT now that I look back. I've had several fish in QT be fine one day, and just die the next for no apparent reason.

 

[shred5]

I have a 125 gallon 6' tank.

They get big but mine has not grown at all but I have not had him a very long time maybe 3 or 4 months.

They are not huge swimmers really.. Mine actually spends a big part of the day wedged in his cave unless someone is around, the rest is spent watching what we are doing. You need to have a cave for them.

I think with Blue throat the larger aquariums requirement comes from the fact they eat allot and produce allot of waste. But that can be made up for by having a larger sump, better filtration, more than one way of exporting nutrients, efficient skimmer, water changes etc.

I am by no way advocating someone can put them in a small tank.. but you have almost the same dimension as a 120 just shorter. I do think you are the minimum of what I would put one in.



48x24 could be ok for a pretty long time if not forever. They can be had pretty small, My lfs has 2 of them right now, one around 6" and one around 4".

 

[dweber618]

Thanks for the tip. Currently my rock work is fairly minimal, but I have enough rock I could move around to form a cave.

Currently I have a midas blenny, one clown, one lyretail, and a diamond watchman goby. I'm thinking the trigger would be the last fish I add. I'm still not sure what/if I want to add any more fish prior to the trigger, so I suppose I should figure that plan out first to avoid any issues after he's established.

 

[CHSUB]

thanks fellas.

looking at his burrow still "bums me out"! setting up my qt next month for another BT. will update when i get him.