Fine Dining Recipe for a Niger Trigger

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Norstar

I must pratest! Gevernment cencorship! Govarmemt sensorship!!!

yep, we run a dictatorship on that particular fish spelling around here, that and angle fish. Oh and pretty much all of stircrazy's posts which I only half comprehend (he does get points for creative spelling though)

It could be worse, I bought a peppermint hogfish ($$$) one of the fish on my must have list, he lasted 2 days (one of those being in the overflow) before my candy hogfish killed him. I had no idea they weren't compatible (couldn't find any info saying they weren't, guess I didnt' look hard enough).

[whatcaneyedo]

That's strange... why would a modest size predator eat a little fish?

Sorry, couldn't help it. If its any consolation my 2' snowflake seems to have eaten the 3" yellow coris wrasse that co-existed with it for the past 4 months. I never saw it happen, the wrasse has just suddenly disappeared. But that wasn't as bad as watching my 6" volitan lionfish try to eat a 3" sailfin blenny. The thing only fit halfway into its mouth and then it spat it out.

[fishoholic]

That sucks, but lesson learned.

[petlaur]

Brings back bad memories of when my Niger took a big chomp out of the dorsal area of my clownfish. I had to eventually euthanize the clown.....mistakenly thought that Niger triggers wouldn't attack similar sized tankmates.

[Norstar]

So much for that Trigger being peaceful. Amazingly enough, he doesn't bother anyone else.

[monocus]

not as bad as when i first started reefing and bought a helfinger gobie(when i had more money than brains)-lasted 30 seconds-my male bird wrasse had a nice light snack

[Norstar]

Are the Niger Triggers (correct spelling this time, Christy!) notorious for devouring small fish? He is only about 4" long. Should I consider getting rid of him? It would be sad if I had to - he is one of my favourite fish!