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04-24-2012, 05:18 AM
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blue throat trigger strange behaviour
recently introduced a blue throat trigger to my display tank about a week ago. first day quite shy, second day he was out and about and eating. this went on for a few days. now ive noticed day 6,7,8 hes been missing. found him wedged in a cave, so i thought maybe he was stuck. i removed all the rock and then he just swam out and into another cave and wedged himself into there. his color is fine, breathing ok, no noticable wounds or diseases, not sure what the problem might be?
anyone else noticed this sort of behaviour with the blue throat trigger? Other fish are fine in the tank. parimeters are good. 
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04-24-2012, 05:21 AM
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Maybe a list of full tank params, fishes list and corals will get you a better answer ?
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04-24-2012, 05:35 AM
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and a list of suspects(tank-mates)......triggers from the Xanthichthys family can sometimes be tricky to introduce.....some are really timid and easily harassed.....once they make it past that initial nervousness they become a lot more bold
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04-24-2012, 05:41 AM
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Hmm.. well tank parameters are stable and accurate for him but maybe im wrong:
Temp: 76f salt: 1.025 nitrate: less than 10 ammonia: 0 tank is 220 fish only with live rock -1 longnose butterfly -1 small naso tang -1 seagrass wrasse -1 crimson starfish I can see how these guys are quite timid so id understand if hes shy of new surroundings but it stumps me since he has came out many times into the open water and ate plenty of servings earlier... ? ive attached a photo of how hes been sitting for going on 3 days now. Last edited by Gregs; 04-24-2012 at 05:44 AM.
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#5
04-24-2012, 06:39 AM
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From my experience that doesn't really seem that strange to me, I know that triggers do have a tendency to do that in the wild and that makes it very difficult and traumatic to capture. All the triggers I've seen come into Victoria seem to do that same thing and very rarely come out of hiding while in the store. A few of us have maybe though it might have something to do with the possible use of cyanide to capture them which messes with there body functions. But that's just what I've seen! I hope he come out and gets some food! They are a gorgeous fish.
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04-24-2012, 06:43 AM
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Was he/she by chance wild-caught ?
Such a beautiful fish ... hope it works out for you both
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