Picasso Trigger, Snowflake, snails and hermits?

[deeze]

I'm planning my tank setup and I really really would love to get a Picasso Trigger, Snowflake Eel, Flame Angel, Regal Tang and a few other cool fish that may be a little aggressive and I was wondering about my cleanup crew. Do you think my cleanup crew of about 100 Blueleg hermits and 50 snails will get taken out by the Picasso Trigger and Eel? Do the Picasso triggers nip at soft corals?
Thanks in advance,

 

[fatpuffer]

Your cleanup crew will be gone by the next day if you put a picasso/huma trigger in that tank. For a 50gallon tank size, I would omit the trigger and you should be fine. Picasso's are super aggressive and even if not hungry, will take out any crustaceans, molusks, ... just for fun. As for your eel, I have no idea..I have no experience with them. Good luck!

 

[moto757]

my picasso would start hitting the snails i got as soon as i dropped them in the tank like they were m&ms or something he just wanted to eat them so needless to say I don't get hermits just run a uv and fuge and get a tang and bam no more algae or anything

 

[copper]

that cleanup creae will be gone in one hour and triggers are two big for a 55gallon they need like 100+gallons. :nope:

 

[thesamm]

my friends picasso (humu humu) rips snails to peices but pretty much leaves hermits alone

 

[khilgers]

I've had the same 4 turbo snails for about 6 months. My picasso trigger, niger trigger and SFE havn't even touched them. They are pretty big snails too, probably around 2" across. Needless to say I did lose 2 smaller snails to the triggers the first one didn't even last the night and the other one was gone within a week. So if you do get snails get some pretty big ones and hopefully they will leave them alone. Just my $.02

 

[deeze]

Man O' man... looks like I need to reconsider the triggers once again. I think I'll shift away from the predatory type species and go back to my original plan and focus on the "tranquil" reef. Think I’ll X the eel too. Here little tangie’…