Triggerfish Advice

[Dave770]

Looking for advice! I have a 90 gallon fowlr with a clown pair, butterflyfish, spot tail blenny, dwarf angel, filefish, and one anthia. Any recommendations on triggers?

Always wanted a humu, and I had a blue jaw in my reef tank that I loved (before it went carpet surfing). If it's simply incompatible I understand, but I'd really like a trigger in my 90 fowlr.

Thanks for any suggestions and comments!

 

[sawdonkey]

I really like my humu, but he tries to murder most new additions. He's fine with his tankmates, just not new guys. I like the blue jaws and the seem to be pretty docile.

 

[Triggreef]

Sargassum! Aka red tail... Very similar to blue jaw in character. Probably could do both.

 

[lion king]

Attitude wise the only ones I'd trust with your line up would be a bluejaw or red tail. Some people will recommend smaller tanks for them but I think a 90 may be too small. My bluejaws don't cover a huge amount of space, but you are usually looking at 3.5-4" at the smallest purchase size and about an inch a year or year and an half in growth to about maybe 7" in a home aquarium. The humu or the other hand you could get really small, like as small as 1", and they grow painfully slow; it would probably be 7 years or so for them to get even close to 4-5". Problem is it's a gamble with how aggressive they turn out. I personally have always had really good ones, but I've known 2 people that had vicious murderous ones.

 

[Dave770]

Thanks for all the input! Sounding like either a blue jaw or red tail for my current setup.

 

[Maritimer]

My blue jaw gets along fine with small fish and large shrimp.

Small, sexy shrimp ... not so much, maybe.

~Bruce