Triggers!

They'll be fine with puffers.

depends on the trigger.  blue jaws and pink tails are pretty laid back for triggers.  i've seen humu triggers with tangs, groupers, and eels.  my buddy has a hawaiian black trigger with a tesselata eel and a miniatus grouper.  clown triggers can be pretty aggressive and undulated triggers are pretty vicious.  

Niger Triggers are as passive as a trigger can be also. My dad has one in his 300gal. with a few dwarf angels, gobies, and a hawkfish among others. He is only about 4 inches but has done fine with smaller fish.

I've successfully kept a rect. trigger with a fiji puffer, a flamehawk, and a saddleback clown for years. Just be sure to add the trigger last. :)

i'm guessing that you are concerned with keeping a trigger in a reef, considering you posted this in the reef tank forum.  to this end, everything i've read suggests that if you're going to keep a trigger in a reef your best bet would be a pink tail or blue jaw.  

I've got a pair of crosshatches (7-8") in a 280g reef. The have been ok with shrimp, and small fish for over a year now. The only problem I have with them is they are food hogs and every once in a while they run into and break some sps corals. They have been great fish but I can't say I would add triggers to a reef again.

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Originally Posted by Kylev 

I've got a pair of crosshatches (7-8") in a 280g reef. The have been ok with shrimp, and small fish for over a year now. The only problem I have with them is they are food hogs and every once in a while they run into and break some sps corals. They have been great fish but I can't say I would add triggers to a reef again.

Agree on the Crosshatches being fine!!!!!

I currently have a Humu Humu Trigger fish in my 120g reef with zero problems. I also had a niger trigger which committed suicide not to long ago but had zero issues with him also. I have the humu humu with the following fish/invertibrates:

• Yellow Tang
• Scopas Tang
• Valamingi Tang
• 6 Chromis
• 2 Clown
• Flame Angel
• Lawnmower Blenny
• Yellow tail damsel
• 1 cleaner shrimp
• 1 fire shrimp
• snails/hermit crabs

I also have all different types of corals which he hasnt touched at all. I think the key is to never let him get hungry!