Blackbelly triggergish in reef tank

[Gligor]

Hello everyone. 2 days ago I added small blackbelly triggerin my reef tank.
I have:
-Blue tang, 2 clowns, and watchman goby.
- Large emerald crab and several nassarius snails.
- Anemone, gsp, mushrooms, csndy cane, zoanthids, gorgonian, hollywood chalice.

So far everything is going good, the trigger eats like a pig, and hasn't touched any of the corals, fish or the inverts. He digged a hole in the sand and is swimming a lot. I'm not worried about the CUC, especially because the emerald crab is larger than the trigger.
I'm worried that it might eat coral, especially I'm worried about my BTA because it's huge and it's the highlight of my tank. On the other hand I always wanted a triggerfish and basicly that's why I took the risk and I bought it impulsively. I do feed heavy several times a day so I think hunger won't be a cause for a problem.
What are your thoughts on this matter?

 

[fishywishy]

As long as you feed it a good diet I doubt it will touch your anemone. But as it gets older it will probably go after your clean up crew.

 

[littlefoxx]

Honestly never had any of my triggers eat coral. However they love to throw sand ALL OVER. So they throw sand on corals and nems, lost a few corals when I had them because of this, one being a chalice. I dont keep corals anymore. But something to be aware of. They are more a danger to shrimps and crabs and snails as far as eating anyone

 

[PharmrJohn]

Hey, if it works out? Awesome. If not? Rehome. I know I've rolled the dice in my past and have won much more than I've lost.

 

[Gligor]

Thank you very much. Like Isaid, currently I'm not worried about the CUC, my emerald is larger than the triggerfish and the nassarius snails are barely going out of the sandbed. I'm going to upgrade my tank to 180gal, and my intention is to keep softies and some lps. I'm also blasting the corals with turkey baster on a daily basis, so sand on the corals won't be a problem as well.

 

[Gligor]

So far so good. Interesting thing is that the trigger somehow bonded with the blue tang and they do everything together, they swim together, they eat together, peck on the live rock together, they just sleep separately. They get little bit scared when I get close to the tank and try to film them.

 

[Gligor]

1 month update.
For now everything is great. Except that the trigger chose a cave that is less than 10inches away from the cave of the blue tang. During the day they always swim eat and peck on the rock together. But 2 hours before lights out the tang always goes inside the triggers cave several times, and he chases her away. Also the trigger goes near the tangs cave, and the tang chases away the trigger. I haven't had any serious aggression problem between the them, but I'm scared that the trigger might hurt the tang because he seems a lot stronger, although the tang is slightly larger than the trigger (they are around 2 inches each).

The clowns and the watchman goby are extremity aggressive and they attack everything that comes near them, especially the goby, he bit the triggers tail fin when he got close to his cave, so I'm now concerned about them.

 

[Gligor]

1 month update.
For now everything is great. Except that the trigger chose a cave that is less than 10inches away from the cave of the blue tang. During the day they always swim eat and peck on the rock together. But 2 hours before lights out the tang always goes inside the triggers cave several times, and he chases her away. Also the trigger goes near the tangs cave, and the tang chases away the trigger. I haven't had any serious aggression problem between the them, but I'm scared that the trigger might hurt the tang because he seems a lot stronger, although the tang is slightly larger than the trigger (they are around 2 inches each).

The clowns and the watchman goby are extremity aggressive and they attack everything that comes near them, especially the goby, he bit the triggers tail fin when he got close to his cave, so I'm now concerned about them.

Anyone has an opinion on this matter? Sorry, but this is my first saltwater tank and I'm a little worried.

 

[Gligor]

1 month update.
For now everything is great. Except that the trigger chose a cave that is less than 10inches away from the cave of the blue tang. During the day they always swim eat and peck on the rock together. But 2 hours before lights out the tang always goes inside the triggers cave several times, and he chases her away. Also the trigger goes near the tangs cave, and the tang chases away the trigger. I haven't had any serious aggression problem between the them, but I'm scared that the trigger might hurt the tang because he seems a lot stronger, although the tang is slightly larger than the trigger (they are around 2 inches each).

The clowns and the watchman goby are extremity aggressive and they attack everything that comes near them, especially the goby, he bit the triggers tail fin when he got close to his cave, so I'm now concerned about them.

Can someone please tell me if this behaviour is normal (blue tang goes into the triggers cave, and the other way around), and can it lead to serious injuries due to their defensive nature? I haven't seen any scars, and both fishes swim happy together most of the day.

 

[Gligor]

1 month update.
For now everything is great. Except that the trigger chose a cave that is less than 10inches away from the cave of the blue tang. During the day they always swim eat and peck on the rock together. But 2 hours before lights out the tang always goes inside the triggers cave several times, and he chases her away. Also the trigger goes near the tangs cave, and the tang chases away the trigger. I haven't had any serious aggression problem between the them, but I'm scared that the trigger might hurt the tang because he seems a lot stronger, although the tang is slightly larger than the trigger (they are around 2 inches each).

The clowns and the watchman goby are extremity aggressive and they attack everything that comes near them, especially the goby, he bit the triggers tail fin when he got close to his cave, so I'm now concerned about them.

Anyone?