puffer or trigger w/shrimp???

[cgrant]

Hi,
Has anyone been able to keep a puffer or a trigger with sometype of cleaner shrimp, like a coral banded shrimp or cleaner?
Just curious? Everything I have read so far is they will probably eat them.

Thanks!

 

[yimmy]

I've seen people with valentini,white spot, and bluespot with shrimp. I wouldn't risk it though. Triggers I'm sure make a quick meal of it

 

[boalgf]

My porc puffer wouldn't care if it was a cleaner shrimp or not, it would be dinner. Same with my trigger. The puffer would just swallow it whole, the trigger would take it apart piece by piece.

 

[sleasia]

I actually have had a small ?spotted hawaiian puffer in with two cleaner shrimp and two fire shrimp for 6-8 months. This puffer is about 2 1/2 inches long, and is described as peaceful in swf's description, but I think you would have a hard time explaining that to the blue leg hermit crab I caught him eating once. I have only seen him eating a crab once. he has never bothered the shrimp and he does allow them to clean him....I have no idea if things will change as he grows...here he is

 

[boalgf]

Toby puffers are much more peaceful that larger puffers.
CGRANT, what kind of puffer were you thinking about?

 

[cgrant]

its a porcupine puffer, ~3" long
triggers a bursa about the same size

 

[boalgf]

Then chances are good that they will eat the shrimp. Hermit crabs and snails might last a while, but puffers are experts at breaking those shells with their beaks. I definitely wouldn't pay $20+ for a shrimp to put in there.

 

[titan]

I had cleaner shrimp in with two triggers for around six months, the Niger was regularily serviced by them. Then one day gone

so it might work for a while, but in the end the predatory instincts will rear it's head