My new trig!

aquaknight

aquaknight

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Yea, those are my QT chromis. I use them as dither fish, to help calm new additions. Though, the Lei definitely didn't need them, as he's been eating from my hand the second day. The chromis were scarred to death the first day (never seen anything close to that big i guess), but now swim right beside him, but know to stay behind the "business end" when food's in the water
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Yep they will both go into the 125. I was really spinning my gears deciding if I should put the Sarg into QT too, and do a soft addition (put a divider in the 55, then remove it), and see how they do. But the health of the guy's tangs (like 6 total), all were in great shape, so I wasn't worried and knew that Xan. Triggers usually will hide for the first couple of days. I wouldn't consider doing this the other way around and adding the much larger Lei first, then the Sarg however.
The full 125 list so far:
Blueface Angel
Hawaiian Bluespotted Puffer
Naso Tang
Leopard Wrasse
Mixed clown pair (percula female/occ. male)
Neon goby
Sargassum Trigger
In a couple weeks the Lei will go in, and then after that I'm not sure. I really would like to do more angels, maybe 1, or 2, or 3, and call it a day
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kjr_trig

kjr_trig

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Guess we need an update on the 2 Triggers, in another thread you claimed the Lei was not behaving....Whats going on?
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Unfortunately, nothing much. I've been trying to find a place for the Lei. Yea, he decided that chromis were tasty (can't really blame him), but he also started snapping and biting at the Burrfish in the 55gal. With some of the fish in the 125, I just couldn't bring myself to risk it. Listed him locally, and no bites, to spite asking just a third of what I paid for him. Called/went to a couple LFS's, didn't get much because they've never seen this trigger before. One claimed he wasn't a Scythe (another commonname) but some other Sufflamen that really drab in color and how hard of a sale he'd be
. They offered $10 store credit. As of right now, he's in the 90gal's sump. My parents have talked about setting up their 65gal instead of their 240. Both of which are sitting in their shed and maybe even selling the 240, since my Mom still has not found work in Bama. Over Christmas break we were planning on moving the temporary 90gal to AL. So they'd have 2 tanks, a 65gal and a 90gal and probably have them take the Lei and put him into the 90. All of the reef fish would go into the 65gal obviously. With far less of a pushover fish like their Humu and yellow tang, I think the Lei will 'fit' in and stop misbehaving. If they decide not to setup/sell the 240, I eventually plan on setting up something in the 300gal range, maybe sooner then later depending on the size of my tax refund, I'll have something more adequate.
On the flip side of things, the Sargassum is doing great. The Naso has stopped harrassing him and the Sarg is much happier, even eating off the nori clip now. And even I think the Blueface has stopped harassing the Naso (funny how these chain of command things work). With just those two 'big' fish, I think the Blueface was sort of 'bored.' Now with the Sarg in there two, the Blueface is even out more.
 
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