Is the Pink Tail Trigger Reef-Safe?????

[black_majik]

I'd love to get one of these but are they safe and will they eat my cleaner shrimp? or snails or hermits( my camel can die) personal exprience would be awesome

[nathenvan]

yeah, all if not most will eat invert.

[dadonoflaw]

i have never kept the pinktail trigger but i hvae kept a blue throat and a niger trigger and i would say the shrimp are most certainly lunch. if you get a small one and feed well snails and crabs are less likely but shrimp WILL be eaten

[black_majik]

Really the cleaner? I thought they get immunity since they are more benefical than lunch.Interesting

[mile sq. reefer]

No immunity on that island. They say that they are planktivores like the blue jaw, sargassum, etc but there is always the chance that your inverts may become lunch.

[black_majik]

So for me in general for the sake of a cleaner shrimp, hermits, corals adn fish is the pinktailed trigger going to be a problem yes or no

[matttaylor]

Saying all triggers will eat shrimp is like saying all reefers smoke crack. I have a niger in my tank with a pair of cleaner shrimp and they have been fine together for a while. The niger gets cleaned by them on a daily basis. I also know numerous people who have kept blue jaw triggers with cleaners with no problems.

However, each fish is different. You can't predict what is going to happen. The only way to find out is to try it.

[black_majik]

One question do zooplanktonavorous triggers have the sharp teeth?

[black_majik]

Sorry bad wording , dp they have the beak that crushes shells of inverts

[matttaylor]

No. Nigers blue throats and pink tail triggers have teeth.

[black_majik]

not the shell crushing teeth, right trying to clear it up