Need Your Thoughts...Last fish

ccampbell57

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Thanks for all your replies on the triggers. I have since decided against both the Sargassum and Black trigger and ordered a 6" Male Crosshatch from my contact in Hawaii.
It gets shipped out on Wednesday and will be in my tank in 2 weeks (after quarantine).
I am super excited right now...I just hope the rest of my fish are ok with the new guy.
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by ccampbell57
Thanks for all your replies on the triggers. I have since decided against both the Sargassum and Black trigger and ordered a 6" Male Crosshatch from my contact in Hawaii.
It gets shipped out on Wednesday and will be in my tank in 2 weeks (after quarantine).
I am super excited right now...I just hope the rest of my fish are ok with the new guy.
so u got a picture of that one?
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by ccampbell57
not yet. I will have one once it comes in from Hawaii...
Your brave shipping something this week.
 

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by ccampbell57
Thanks for all your replies on the triggers. I have since decided against both the Sargassum and Black trigger and ordered a 6" Male Crosshatch from my contact in Hawaii.
It gets shipped out on Wednesday and will be in my tank in 2 weeks (after quarantine).
I am super excited right now...I just hope the rest of my fish are ok with the new guy.
Excellent choice! I had a pair of these for about 8 years when I lived in. Mississippi, pre-Katrina.As I remember, they weren't so pricey then.The 6" male is , IMO, the peak size for color and Hawaiian fish always seem to do well, because of the way they're captured. You'll love him!
 

ccampbell57

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Originally Posted by srfisher17
Excellent choice! I had a pair of these for about 8 years when I lived in. Mississippi, pre-Katrina.As I remember, they weren't so pricey then.The 6" male is , IMO, the peak size for color and Hawaiian fish always seem to do well, because of the way they're captured. You'll love him!
SRFisher - how was your x-hatch's attitude? I have always heard that these guys are very docile for a trigger...any thoughts?
 

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by ccampbell57
SRFisher - how was your x-hatch's attitude? I have always heard that these guys are very docile for a trigger...any thoughts?
My pair acted more like a pair of mated maroon clownfish than triggers; they had a territory they would defend, but NEVER bothered anyone else. I haven't done any reading on them in a while, but I agree with what you said,"these guys are very docile for a trigger". When yours gets acclimated; I think we'll agree that no photo does them justice, they're magnificent(a word I don't use lightly, all SW fish are, but this fish is really, well-magnificent!) BTW, since reading your post, I'm pretty sure I'll be getting a male crosshatch, or even a pair, as the final fish (yeah, right), in my big tank. My Son is getting a great scholarship as he enters college next year, and I know my priorities!
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by srfisher17
My pair acted more like a pair of mated maroon clownfish than triggers; they had a territory they would defend, but NEVER bothered anyone else. I haven't done any reading on them in a while, but I agree with what you said,"these guys are very docile for a trigger". When yours gets acclimated; I think we'll agree that no photo does them justice, they're magnificent(a word I don't use lightly, all SW fish are, but this fish is really, well-magnificent!) BTW, since reading your post, I'm pretty sure I'll be getting a male crosshatch, or even a pair, as the final fish (yeah, right), in my big tank. My Son is getting a great scholarship as he enters college next year, and I know my priorities!
I don't know, I saw a pair of cross hatches at the lfs (they were sold) And they were cool but not the most beautiful trigger in my mind.
 

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
I don't know, I saw a pair of cross hatches at the lfs (they were sold) And they were cool but not the most beautiful trigger in my mind.
Yeah, there are so many triggers, and everyone has a favorite. There are more brilliantly colored triggers, but I like the colors, as well as the patterns and some hard-to-describe way they carry themselves. Crosshatches are a fish that, IMO, is better looking when they get bigger. No fish will show its best colors in a lfs; and I think this is especially true of these fish. I never saw a real nice flasher wrasse in a store either; but, when conditions are to their liking, they really lite up. There are other SW fish that may not have all the colors, like members of the tuna family, that (at least to me) I consider "magnificent.
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by srfisher17
Just a hunch; I'll bet he gets a Crosshatch.
Hey this was your 1000th post. Yeah, I'll give you that thought that they aren't as beautiful at the lfs. And taste does account for alot. To me on of the most beautiful fish in the world is a large mouth bass, or a speckled trout. Just the crosshatch didn't capture my admiration like some of the other fish, like a dogface, or bass ect.
 

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
Hey this was your 1000th post. Yeah, I'll give you that thought that they aren't as beautiful at the lfs. And taste does account for alot. To me on of the most beautiful fish in the world is a large mouth bass, or a speckled trout. Just the crosshatch didn't capture my admiration like some of the other fish, like a dogface, or bass ect.
THE most beautiful fish is a "tailing" bonefish.
 

peter1215

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Crosshatch all the way baby!!!! congrats Campbell....I hope i can afford one next year!! please post pictures asap...can i add a crosshatch even if i have a sargassum and a Niger already?
FYI: two days ago as i was feeding seaweed, I felt something bite my finger and i quickly yanked my hand out of the tank. my finger was bleeding and as i turned around i see my sargassum laying on the carpet about six feet away! his teeth were stuck on my finger so when i pulled my hand out he flew across the room!!! hes doing fine now ... forget reef safe, how bout human safe..lol
 

kjr_trig

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Originally Posted by peter1215
Crosshatch all the way baby!!!! congrats Campbell....I hope i can afford one next year!! please post pictures asap...can i add a crosshatch even if i have a sargassum and a Niger already?
FYI: two days ago as i was feeding seaweed, I felt something bite my finger and i quickly yanked my hand out of the tank. my finger was bleeding and as i turned around i see my sargassum laying on the carpet about six feet away! his teeth were stuck on my finger so when i pulled my hand out he flew across the room!!! hes doing fine now ... forget reef safe, how bout human safe..lol
I am only laughing because it happened to me too Peter, only with my porky puffer....OUCH
He only went about three feet though, six feet sounds pretty good in the "Fish Toss Competition".
 

peter1215

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Originally Posted by kjr_trig
I am only laughing because it happened to me too Peter, only with my porky puffer....OUCH
He only went about three feet though, six feet sounds pretty good in the "Fish Toss Competition".

KJR
maybe i'm the current holder of the worlds longest "trigger fish toss" and dont even know it...lol ....were's ESPN when you need them!!!
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by kjr_trig
I am only laughing because it happened to me too Peter, only with my porky puffer....OUCH
He only went about three feet though, six feet sounds pretty good in the "Fish Toss Competition".

When I first got my tank, I had a roomate that would stick his finger into the tank and watch the fish go up to his finger, then would pull it out. But one time he was looking at this chick and got distracted then next thing you know he screams and flying across the room goes the puffer.
 
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