triggers in mixed reef aquarium

[reeftrinh]

who here has a trigger in their reef aquarium?

what kind of trigger do you have? What does it eat? What have you done to prevent it from nibbling on any of your corals?

i talked to a LFS about having triggers in a reef aquarium. The LFS had a 1000k gallon tank and had about 5 or 6 triggers in the tank. apparently they only eat the inverts (hermit crabs & snails, shrimps) and not corals...

 

[Anemonebuff]

I have seen reefs with triggers, but you will not be able to house shrimp, clams, crabs, and sometimes snails.

 

[pimpinitup6969]

My step dad had a mixed reef with a blue throat trigger for years until it recently died..... he never had an issue with the trigger eating any inverts or corals. it would eat frozen mysis, brine, silversides, krill

 

[erendon]

I've had my mated bluejaw's for about a year. They eat like pigs! They eat just about.......wait..."anything" I put in the tank. I have not seen them bother my sps yet.

 

[reeftrinh]

very cool

 

[jubjub]

i have a niger trigger in myreef.....i have a cleaner shrimp he's been fine although my sandsifting star got eaten by him...outside of that model citizen

 

[pwoller]

I have had 2 differant blue jaws with all corals as well as differant types of shrimp and crabs, never a problem. I have found them to be great reef tank fish.