Reef Safe Trigger?

[Breezp]

For some reason i am thinking about putting a trigger into my tank... a small one, of corse i wouldnt add the trigger until well after i add my shrimp, but does anyone know any triggers that are ok in a reef??

 

[marrone]

Xanthichthys Mento-Crosshatch Trigger
Xanthichthys Ringens-Red Tail Trigger
Xanthichthys Auromarginatus-Blue Throat Trigger
Sufflamen bursa- Sickle or Boomerang Trigger
Sufflamen albicaudatus-White Tail Trigger
Sufflamen chrysopterus-Half Moon Trigger

 

[jhale]

i have a small blue throat, i think she ate my cleaner shrimp.
one day the shrimp was gone.

 

[Breezp]

lol yea thats what im scared of, i want a sm male blue throat, but i dont want to make any sacrafices... which did u add first?

 

[Deanos]

I don't think a trigger, set on eating ornamental shrimp, will care who was there first :eat:

That kind of thinking is more for introducing a new fish to other fish in an established tank.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

it is definately a risk, mixing triggers and shrimp

 

[Breezp]

yea, good call guys... thnx

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

2 words- Shrimp Cocktail!

 

[michael stern]

popcorn shrimp?

 

[jjbbambam]

ok blue throat triggers are fine if u add them last to the tank shrimp should be ok also sargasim triggers are also great as well as the crosshtach triggers are all ok cross hatch will just cost u some seroius money

 

[cali_reef]

I have a 3" male Blue Throat for 3-4 months, a 6" one I just got few weeks ago from Hawaii, two 2-3" niger triggers in my 180. All four of them fight to sleep in the same hole as the two cleaner shrimp I have in there.

Take your chances..

 

[Breezp]

yea, i dont feel like taking the chance of loosing my first line of defense against ich lol