Trigger!!!!!!??????!!!!!!!

[lionfish18]

I have had my tank running for over two years now and my almost 2 year old fuzzy dwarf lionfish died the other day and i was wondering what triggers i could get. I currently only have a snowflake ell, 5 inch yellow tang, and almost a 3 inch tomato clown and about 10 hermits and 4 snails. The tank is a 50 gal. and i want him to be happy and not eat anything.
(maybe a hummu hummu trigger)?????

 

[gasguzzler]

You really need to be carefull with hermits and triggers. My brothers triggers would pick up the hermits to the top of the tank and drop them on a rock until the shell broke or they died. Very interesting behavior but costly to the hermits. If you need to have a trigger, try a horseshoe crab instead to turn the sand. I have one in my 125 and it does an awesome job. They leave cool shells behind when they molt, too. Before any of this however, I would find the root cause of the lions death.

 

[gdamador]

Sorry about the loss... was it disease or just "old age"?
Anyhow, you could get the Humu Humu or Rectangular or the Niger but probably not a Clown Trigger because they get very aggressive as they get bigger. Keep in mind that triggers get somewhat large and for a 50g it would eventually outgrow it, But for the meantime you can get a small one (2-5") and enjoy it for many years until it gets too big. Good luck! Oh, the Niger would be your best bet because they a re a lot more docile than the others. I have one in a reef tank and he has never bothered anything including the snails and hermits.

 

[lionfish18]

It died of old age. Thank you for your input. but i still think the humu humu looks cooler but i think i might just get a niger.

 

[moto757]

got a hummu he doesn't mess with hermits at all but killed my little snails so i got a couple real big ones and he doesn't mess with them either so everything is living now he just plucks at the live rock and i can hear it across the room pretty nice looking so are nigers though