undulated trigger tank size?
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dgs174
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Sorry as to what type of environment...all trigger fish native to reefs in the wild. However, putting a trigger into a "reef tank" is not advisable under anny circumstance because they eat anything. However, I keep my trigger ina tank with ALOT of life rock because that is like their home environment. So get some LR and a huge tank, and he will be happy. Of course, you really can't throw anything else in there so just remember you have the meanest trigger ever in you tank....
clowntrigga
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NAHH THEY WILL PRETTY MUCH EAT ANYTHING YOU PUT IN THE TANK!I HAD ONE FOR A WHILE AND I FED HIM A DIET OF FROZEN SQUID,MUSSELS,BRINE SHRIMP, TRIGGER FORMULA,SIVER SIDES,AND THE OCCASIONAL TREAT OF FRESH SHRIMP, FRESH SQUID, OR EVEN LIVE GOLD FISH BECAUSE THEY LOVE TO HUNT AND ITS REALLY COOL TO WATCH BUT DONT DO IT OFTEN MAYBE ONCE A MONTH BECAUSE ITS NOT A GOOD SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR THE FISH DIET!GOOD LUCK UR GONNA LOVE HIM! 
dlight692000
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i have had one and i would say a 75 gallon alone and they will eat anything and they will get mean, but they are a cool fish
big dave
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They eat anything and I mean anything! At my LFS we had to put one(2in) in a tank with a queen angel(8in) and the undulate beat the crap out of the angel luckily we sold some fish and emptied a tank of inhabitants before he killed that poor angel. One customer in my store has a 150 with 6 giant domino damsels and an undulate. I think the only reasons the damsels are alive is because they are so darn fast
chubby trigger
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Originally posted by Fugu:
<STRONG>would anyone have any experience with keeping an undulated trigger in a solitary tank? what size would be the minimum? what type of an enviroment do they require and how hardy are they?
thanks</STRONG>
i went against all the rules, i like to experiment and prove people wrong.i have an undulated along with a bulue spotted puffer and the picasso. the triggers went first and then i added the puffer. all in a 40. they are all juveniles but my plans were to accomodate these specific fish with growth.
you have a much broader range of comability with juveniles. As far as solitary, depending on the size of i would say 40 for a juvi-mid sized anything over that , 55 would be sufficient.
<STRONG>would anyone have any experience with keeping an undulated trigger in a solitary tank? what size would be the minimum? what type of an enviroment do they require and how hardy are they?
thanks</STRONG>
i went against all the rules, i like to experiment and prove people wrong.i have an undulated along with a bulue spotted puffer and the picasso. the triggers went first and then i added the puffer. all in a 40. they are all juveniles but my plans were to accomodate these specific fish with growth.
you have a much broader range of comability with juveniles. As far as solitary, depending on the size of i would say 40 for a juvi-mid sized anything over that , 55 would be sufficient.
moruti
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i'll probably get flamed, but in my classroom i have a snowflake (approx 8"), a neon/black velvet damnsel (2") and an Undulated (3"), and the Undulated is the whimpiest one in there! i remember when one of my classes took up a collection to buy the meanest, baddest fish around, & all their research pointed to the undulated, and when i was finally able to buy one from my LFS (local bieng 1 1/2 hrs away), the first thing it did was to hide in a barnacle sculpture/deco for several months! Now, at the end of the year, it has emerged, and my students are impressed w/ the colours, but they are still more impressed by feeding a piece of shrimp on a stick to the eel than watching the undulated's finicky indecision of whether or not to chase live food around.