Pairing Blue Throat triggerfish

ponokareefer · #1 03-24-2011, 05:40 AM

That's not what I wanted to hear Tony!

I realize this probably has a long shot of working now, so not sure what I am going to do. My female was actually sold to me as a small male, as it had a slight tinge of blue on its jaw and no color on its fins. When the red/brown developed on the tail and blue dissapeared, I knew I didn't have what I was looking for. I'm not sure I want to risk the fighting as it not only affects the 2 fish, but seems to stress out all the fish in the tank.

ponokareefer · #2 03-25-2011, 03:27 PM

Just to give an ending to this thread, I found the male triggerfish dead today after not seeing it at all yesturday. I guess the stress of getting beat up the first few days was too much. Something that others said is was so easy ends up in a dead fish. I'm not impressed at all.

Delphinus · #3 03-25-2011, 05:56 PM

Ohh man I'm so sorry. I feel for you. That is the EXACT same outcome really that I had when attempting to pair up my rabbitfish and then before that about a year ago I tried to pair up two golden dwarf eels. ALL the advice I was given was essentially "go for it because things will be fine" and in both cases the newcomer to the equation died before I was able to separate them. It's such a hard judgment call because there is ALWAYS hazing at first and in many cases this subsides after a few days and so when you're in that period it's so difficult to gauge whether you should wait out that first week and see how it goes, or whether you really do need to do an intervention for the sake of preventing one from dieing. So I was incredibly annoyed and disappointed at the bad advice I was given at the time.

That said, despite my intuition that I probably will never pull it off, I would LOVE to pair my crosshatch one day .. so I was still hoping to hear that there'd be a happier ending to your story than this.

ponokareefer · #4 03-25-2011, 06:46 PM

It was a little strange, as the first 2 days, there was minimal damage to the male and was still out and swimming around. The next 2 days, the male had found a cave and occasionally came out and the female only "eyed" him. I thought it was going fairly well. Then part way through the 5th day, the female went ape chasing the male into the cave and attacking him. The male eventually went out of his cave, at which point, I caught the female.