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Old 11-25-2008, 07:21 PM
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I had one years ago with other fish i think they are a bit overrated as far as being killers. Probably more a case by case as per most fish some bad some good. Now Titan trigger thats a whole other thing.
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Old 11-25-2008, 07:40 PM
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I had one years ago with other fish i think they are a bit overrated as far as being killers. Probably more a case by case as per most fish some bad some good. Now Titan trigger thats a whole other thing.
Well you may have had the exception I think. I have heard of many that kill entire tanks once they get big and aggressive. As for this guy, two inches long, had him for two months and he has killed two damsels and destroyed a 6" puffers tail (that has not grown back yet ). He needs to be on his own.

The last one I had before this (5 years ago) killed a tang before I took him back to the store who told me he was a community fish

It does depend on the individuals but Undulates, Queens, Titans and Clowns are amongst the most aggressive and should be kept solo for the most part. When they are younger they do fine but its almost inevitable that they will start getting very aggressive around the 7" mark.

My Niger Trigger is getting ridiculously aggressive at about 7-8" now too.

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Old 11-25-2008, 07:42 PM
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pls delete - I'm taking my stupid joke out

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Old 11-25-2008, 07:45 PM
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I must of had a retarded one then mine was 6" and chased my damsels but never killed anything. Other than all the inverts.
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I must of had a retarded one then mine was 6" and chased my damsels but never killed anything. Other than all the inverts.
No you had the one I dream of! You had a very nice fish

It does happen...they can be nice. Its just that this one is not and I do not want to be responsible for unleashing this little devil on someones beautiful fish. Its much more common for people who have had them long term to find they get very aggressive with age. Some like mine, start out really aggressive. Maybe he will calm down with age

I had my dogface puffer in the refugium for one day with him and the puffer has only half a tail left now. Im sure it will grow back though.
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Old 11-25-2008, 08:35 PM
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the new yellow bellied dogface? poor guy. hope he recovers okay.
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the new yellow bellied dogface? poor guy. hope he recovers okay.
No the old one. He seems fine. It looks like his tail is slowly growing back in the places that the Undy ripped it apart.

I am still shocked that he attacked a fish that is easily 4 times the size of him.
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Old 11-25-2008, 11:21 PM
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nice fish saw one at king ed's a couple months ago was wanting to get him so bad however am glad I didn't as he would have probally cost me alot with my angels, that he would attack.
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