Are Blue Throat triggers safe with inverts

Originally Posted by bsyoun

rs may be reef safe.

"They should not pose a problem with corals in an aquarium and tend to have a more placid disposition than many of their triggerfish brethren"

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct2002/Fish.htm

Read the above quote.....when you get to the words "may" "should" and "tend", emphasise them and let those words sink in... We are putting wild animals in little viewing boxes and getting upset when one of our caged critters has a bad day and eats one of his fellow jailbirds...... If you dont want to lose one of your prized specimins, keep a species tank, otherwise your playin a game called russian roulet, chances are in your favor that your gona come out ok, so are ya feelin lucky punk???

Cheers

[justinl]

like UWA pointed out, it'll be random with something like a trigger. Ive heard they stick to plakton too tony, but you never know with triggers right?

btw tony, if you get a small mantis It'll be just fine really. smaller species are even considered reef safe. A mantis can move rocks/frags about 1.5 times their own weght maximum (probably an overestimate on my part anyways). So if all your frags are down tight to rocks the mantis can't budge, your corals are safe. Now which mantis? well keep to the small ones like G. viridis, N. wennerae, or G. smithii. Stay away from G. chiragra and O. scyllarus (peacock). note that lfs almost never ID mantids properly. I got a g. smithii in my 8gal reef-to-be.

[Chaloupa]

I have a pair of blue throats that will eat any clam that I put in the tank....and eat it quickly BUT that being said they are eating clams from the local seafood shop that I give to my Copperband Butterfly.......don't know if that gives you any idea as they aren't "pretty clams" that we covet in our reefs they do try to open them up themselves too.....

[Joe Reefer]

I added a niger trigger to my reef about 2 weeks ago. He hasn't touched any snails, clams or crabs yet, but my fingers are still crossed.

[Fishfanatic]

I caved today and bought the blue throat so I will let you all know if he eats my electric crocea.

[KrazyKuch]

I have found that Blue throat triggers a fine with inverts, as long as the inverts are in the tank first....if you try and put them in afterwards you can't let him see you doing it or he will try and eat them!!