Trigger Fish Owners

[Rijinals]

I am interested in purchasing one. The thing is this will mean all snails, brittle star and shrimp back to the LFS. I am hoping all hermits will be ok. I do not want one that will harrass my other fish either! So this means I want a chilled out one.

Which are the tamest triggers? Do you have one with hermits? If not what do you use as your clean up crew (because I take it they are not inverts)?

[I like Triggers]

i have large hermits and dwarf hermits with my clown trigger and humu trigger.

[T-T-Trigger]

if you want a tame one then no need to return your inverts.

[snapper1]

I have small scarlett Hermits with my Blue Nigers,they never bother them at all.

[fishyz]

You could try a blue throat trigger.

[danorth]

pink tail too...

[Rijinals]

I like the blue nigers and the blue throat triggers. Are these less aggresive then? Will I be able to pop one in with the verts I have?

Also how aggressive is the clown trigger? I have heard loads of stories about them being hard to keep, plus reading the messages on here it sounds pretty hard!

[stykthyn]

the thing with clowns is that many of them come in as juveniles. smaller triggers have an extremely fast metabolism and need to graze constantly in order to get the proper amounts of nutrition.look for one that is at least 3" anything smaller than that is going to be questionable. most simply wither away under a normal feeding schedule. many triggers while young are often friendly and sociable, when they get larger their true personalities will emerge.
I have had a niger trigger for 3 years now. he ignores snails and hermit crabs. he has even permitted a choc chip starfish to live with him, but any fish are fair game.
I would go with either a pinktail or a bluethroat as they seem to be the most passive.

[triggerfish1976]

Triggers in the Balistoides (Clown, Blue Line) and Rhinecanthus (PIcasso, Bursa) feed on shrimp, crabs and snails as part of their natural diet and to grind down their teeth in the wild. If you keep them well fed they will not immediately eat your inverts but once they do and get a taste for them it won't take them long to make short work of your clean up crew. Smaller specimans (less than 6") are also less likely to eat snails and crabs.

Melichthys (Pink Tail, Black Durgeon) & Xanthichthys (Crosshatch, Sargassum) & Odonus Niger Triggers are less prone to eat snails but they may eat on small crabs and shrimp. These triggers are plantivores in the wild and are more active than the triggers above so they should be fed 2-3 times per day in order to keep them well fed and lessen the desire to eat other tank inhabitants.