blue jaw/throat trigger in a Reef tank??

[sps4mytank]

So I have this opportunity to get a healthy blue jaw trigger for my tank. This fish has been housed in a 150 gallon tank with corals. But the owner raised it since 1 inch along with all his corals. I want to put this in my tank and know it'll probably not nip my corals but I am afraid he'll try to eat my sanjays black photons (clowns named beyonce and jayz). I always have some clams in the tank. Would you think its a good or bad idea?

any experience with this fish is appreciated.

thanks
jay

 

[143gadgets]

You should have no problems with it. I had one a awhile back and it was awesome. They eat and poop a lot though.

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

They are known to snack on shrimp, if that's ok with you. :)

 

[CoralBandit]

I got one he doesnt nip at anything (I dont have clams) and I have a mixed reef except once he bit a chalice but I swear he was aiming at a piece of shrimp on the sand bed it was actually pretty funny that he missed lol. It eats like a pig though, obnoxiously, like a blue tang. So I wouldnt put with shy eaters is what im getting at.

 

[sps4mytank]

i dont have any shrimp but do have clams and my family are fond of those guys.

jay

 

[Murfman]

I have a Sargassum Trigger, as well as a Hawaiian pink tail and haven't had issues with them I have a pistol shrimp that is 4 years old. They never messed with my cleaners or coral banded shrimp.

 

[rng_pw]

I have a male and a female blue jaw trigger in 450 gallon reef with tons of sps lps and zoas as well as clams and I have never had any problems. I see my male getting cleaned by my cleaner shrimp all of the time. I would say go for it.

 

[macawmagic]

I had one in my tank and he was perfect. LIke a big teddy bear! I want to try another, but am trying to save up for the 300 and I think it would be better to just wait!

Highly recommended!

 

[sps4mytank]

Anyone have issues of the trigger trying to eat smaller fish?

 

[Eight]

My trigger hasn't bothered any of my fish. I have a very small twinspot goby who is always out and they never have problems.

 

[Alcedok9]

Our's did very well until it started hitting on our yellow headed jawfish...

 

[x Sarah x]

I have a male and female pair of these in my FOWLR, the only corals i have are an elephants ear, 2 toadstools and some other unknown thing, they don't cause any problems whatsoever, they're fantastic! and ever so pretty :)

I have 3 tiny tiny chromis in my tank which my old black trigger would have eaten without a doubt, these guys paid no attention whatsoever even though they are bite sized snacks!

The only fish i have seen them eat was a Blue cheek sleeper goby that died in the aquarium after getting sucked into the overflow (god bless his little soul) and they thoroughly enjoyed ripping that to shreds and eating it along with the puffer, wrasse and tuskfish's, but only began eating it when they noticed the other fish were having a frenzy, otherwise they wouldn't have touched it i don't think!

My OH hand feeds them prawns which they love, great little characters :)

 

[werks]

I had a small male in my ninety gallon for a long time (about 1yr.). He never ate or picked at anything, but he learned to flip over frag tiles on my sandbed to get at the "bugs" underneath. He would also sometimes pick frags out of the mag rack on the glass to drop them on the ground for some reason. Kind of drove me nuts, i ended up giving him to a freind.

also my wife loved him and named him smacky, for the noise he would make when he ate at the surface.

 

[racerw]

I have a pair of crosshatches in my reef tank with no issues. They have eaten my chromis but I swear my chromis tease them. I have a pair of clowns that they do not bother. I have cleaner shrimp and clams.

 

[ilovereef]

I've seen them in ppl's reef tank, personally I wouldn't, other than it might detroy some livestocks, it fouls water more , +1 a lot of poop

 

[Paul_N]

What is the verdict on crosshatch and bluethroats with clams? Safe or not? I would really love putting one in a 220 as the last fish but I have two clams and would like to get more.

 

[racerw]

This is an older picture but here mine are next to clams. No issues here

 

[Myteemouse]

mine (blue jaw) has no issues AT all.. I have zoo's LPS, and SPS and 4 different types of shrimp. :)

 

[rng_pw]

This is an older picture but here mine are next to clams. No issues here

That is a great picture. I had a chance to add a pair to my tank a few years back but the male was way to big. At the time I was building my 300 but had no idea when it would be done and I did'nt want to put them in my 90 so they went to someone with a bigger tank. I thought I was over my wanting a crosshatch pair until I seen this picture.

 

[sps4mytank]

great picture and great looking fish. Convinced me I am okay. but if he nips....to the sump he will go (125 gallon tub)