Clown Trigger

[texasreefrat]

Ok, Ive been through this before with other fish I had to have. I really want a Clown Trigger, it is the fish that lured me into this bottomless glass pit that eats all my cash. I have a reef, with a few corals(candy, clove polyps, brown buttons, purple gorgonian) and intend on getting more coral as my rock builds up. I have fish also(two yellow tangs, domino Damzel, three stripe damzel, lawnmower blenny, perc. clown). I have seen some people that have them in reefs along with smaller fish and corals with no problem(Jackson). Is it possible for me to have this fish as long as I keep it fed?

 

[mlm]

Some one on this board said they had a Niger Trigger in a reef tank w/o any problems. I personaly do not know if I would try it. I the wild they just seem to go around chomping at the reef.

 

[trigahappynigerog]

good question... i dont think anyone here has tried. nigers are reef safe. and with all the opinions i got on here i posted pics of an undulate in a reef with alot of smaller fish.....

 

[adrian]

Sure you can keep a clown in a reef, but I dont feel that would be the best enviroment in which to keep one, say bye bye to most of your inverts, and eventually most of your smaller fish, clowns are nice when juvi, but with age come a larger appetite and aggresiveness. It is possible to keep one and never have a problem with it, but I think theyre just like angels in you have a 50/50 shot whether it will work or not. IMO you definitely be taking a risk. HTH

 

[reefcrazy]

ok i have a

[hr]
and a picaso in my tank with a colt, mushrooms, elegant, bubble and one carpet anemone. the triggers are both a inch and a half long and haven't taken a bitte of any of my coral. but they are small right now, who know they my eat my corals when they grow up. any ways i have a 120g tank that a friend gave me just getting ready to set up and that's were this guys are going. if you want give it a try all that could happen is that he'll provably eat some corals.

 

[adrian]

Im not so sure triggers have an appetite for corals at all, they are carnivores and I think they are more of a threat to inverts like crabs, snails, stars, ect. Not to mention small fish. Could be wrong though HTH