Niger triggerfish reef safe?

daniella3d · #1 10-26-2010, 05:27 AM

My gosh...no way I am brining that fish in with my female mandarin in the tank. wow, voracious! so I will have to wait until I have no more clam and small fish. Maybe one day

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Originally Posted by medhatreefguy

That's the strange part, I've seen the Niger hang around the cleaner wrasse and hold its gill out so the cleaner could give it the royal treatment. Last night I was just watching the fish when before I could do anything the Niger came along and bit a chunk right out of the belly of the Wrasse, it squirmed as it sank but there was no chance of survival and certainly no guessing as to who the culprit was.

daniella3d · #2 11-01-2010, 05:32 PM

Ok I don't know if I did well but I could not find a blue throat and found a nice very blue looking niger and bought him. He was very friendly with other fish so I will see. I currently have no shrimps in my tank either. He is around 3" and the color is very nice.

Time will tell.

Can I put a niger with a blue throat together in a 75 gallons?

#3 11-02-2010, 02:53 AM

I had one also my carpet Nem ate it then I sold the nem I will get another one, mine would pick the narsarious snails out of the sand by their tube and try and eat them but that is all he bothered with. I had corals and shrimp with him but in generally if they want some thing they get it sooner or latter. I really like them maybe even better than tangs....

Bill

lockrookie · #4 11-02-2010, 03:49 AM

every sit you go to on this fish says not reef safe. and our lfs has two in right now i had thought of adding one to my 90g. the ones at the lfs are juvies. as for my cleaner wrass i could catch and move it to my other tank. i should probably wait until i upgrade the tank next year to the 120 this way i wont stress as much out in the process. tempting tho very tempting.

infamous · #5 11-02-2010, 05:32 AM

I just have 1 question.... What is this "teeth wearing down" business? I have never heard of this before and am curious as to what it means.

daniella3d · #6 11-02-2010, 03:41 PM

They are supposed to have some sort of theets that always grow and must be weared down by chewing on hard shell.

Mine is currently with my gold headed goby and they eat side by side and no aggression from either fish. They even toutch each other without any reaction. Mine is around 4" right now.

He has not toutched my flame scallop nor any of my coral so far, keep finger crossed.

I have read they don't attack coral but their natural prey are shrimps and they can eat them once they are adult. I also have a crocea in my aquarium so hopefully he'll ignore it.

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Originally Posted by infamous

I just have 1 question.... What is this "teeth wearing down" business? I have never heard of this before and am curious as to what it means.