gohstwrighter
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ok i have bin seeing lots of big reefs with triggers in them .so whats the deal are thay reef safe or not and what should i look for if i want one on mine?:dance:
triggers in reef?
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Bruno21447
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I would say caution. Best two would be niger and bluejaw.
brannock_16
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They are generally reef safe in terms of corals. Some will go after inverts or clams. The most reef safe are the blue jaw, sargassum, and niger.
jonathansruelas
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crosshatch and pinktail.. thats what ima do in my reef tank, but consider the inverts snacks
MIKE NY
Two Decade club
I had a blue throat and a niger in my reef. They are "reef safe" in the sense that they won't bother corals, but small inverts, fish, shrimp are on the menu. BTW the niger grew faster than the blue and began bulling it ...the niger will become more aggressive as it gets larger...the blue is the better choice as well as the sargassum and crosshatch, but they need large tanks...
AquaticFins
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Personally, I wouldn't put any triggers other than Xanthichthys spp in a reef.
Personality is a hard thing to predict for any triggerfish, but those are the most predictable of the bunch in my experience.
With that said, these fish are definitely very active swimmers and get fairly large. The aquascaping needs to reflect that. I don't believe they're particularly suitable for anything but the largest reef aquariums.
Personality is a hard thing to predict for any triggerfish, but those are the most predictable of the bunch in my experience.
With that said, these fish are definitely very active swimmers and get fairly large. The aquascaping needs to reflect that. I don't believe they're particularly suitable for anything but the largest reef aquariums.
gohstwrighter
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my taink is a 125 gallon lps and soft coral taink mainly.
redhdmedic
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had a niger grow up and move in my reef tanks throughout their builds...he went from 29g to 55g to 75g. He and my sons porcupine puffer lived together for 7 years through 3 moves and neither touched corals but we did lose occassional hermits and shrimps. I was really surprised that they didn't constantly eat the cleaner/fire/peppermint shrimps as both fish loved krill, but we're not talking like they would constantly knock them off either.
Currently have a pinktail (Lips) in our 215g which is absolutely overrun with kenya tree and other softies, and she doesn't seem interested at all in either the coral, crabs nor snails...but we have not put shrimps in the tank to see how they would fare in there...her favorite food, of course, is krill.
Currently have a pinktail (Lips) in our 215g which is absolutely overrun with kenya tree and other softies, and she doesn't seem interested at all in either the coral, crabs nor snails...but we have not put shrimps in the tank to see how they would fare in there...her favorite food, of course, is krill.
gohstwrighter
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i have a 125 gallon desplay with a 40 gallon sump
1 coral banded shrimp
1 purple reef lobster
4 serpent stars
and tons of brittle stars
but i was thinking of maby puting thim in the sump if i thought it woodent mes with my fish or corals
fish include
2 black and white clowns
1 yellow tang
1 yellow watchman
1 harry blinny
1 copper banded butterfly
3 blue green crommies
1 banded basselet (maby never see it anny more)
1 coral banded shrimp
1 purple reef lobster
4 serpent stars
and tons of brittle stars
but i was thinking of maby puting thim in the sump if i thought it woodent mes with my fish or corals
fish include
2 black and white clowns
1 yellow tang
1 yellow watchman
1 harry blinny
1 copper banded butterfly
3 blue green crommies
1 banded basselet (maby never see it anny more)
Killer Tangs
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I kept a baby picasso and fairly large pink tail trigger in a 60 gal tank with snails for about 4 months without incident. When I set up my 240 I moved them over cause I didn't want to run 2 tanks and then watched in horor the picasso devour 10 snails in the half hour he was in there. I say half hour because that's how long it took me to completly tear apart the rock work I had worked so hard to perfect and get him out of there and back into the other tank. I had to laugh though at that fish because he was "picking off snails" as I was chasing him around the tank with a net. Thank goodness he finally wedged in a rock and I just took that out. I took the pink tail out a couple of days later even though I didn't see him do anything.
Needless to say it was really stupid on my part to put a picasso in a soon to be reef tank but in my defense he was sooooooo well behaved in the other one.
Needless to say it was really stupid on my part to put a picasso in a soon to be reef tank but in my defense he was sooooooo well behaved in the other one.
Yes, and it is one of the most personable and gorgeous of them all!
Careful about making krill the primary food.
Tat2demon
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aleonn
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Any trigger may eventually eat some of your smaller fish. I purchased a small and shy BJT and was about to remove him from QT into the DT when this was brought up to me. I decided that I didn't want to take the chance!
aragonite55
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Had an Indicus which never bothered corals, but small motile inverts were a no no.
rssjsb
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I'm not sure a 125 is big enough for any Xanthichthys species long term. Anyone else have any thoughts about that?
kirkaz
Jade
Certainly not nearly large enough for adult Crosshatch. Sargassum would be a good fish for that size.
Just my 2 cents here having 10+ years worth of Triggers....No guarantees with any Triggers, and all adult Triggers are potentially very aggressive including Xanthichthys species. My adult Male Crosshatch is not a "peaceful" fish.
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