Triggerfish fry question

Boboe77 · Mar 9, 2015

I have a pair of blue throat triggers that potentially will mate sooner or later. I know about their guarding of eggs, but what about when they hatch. Do they eat their own fry when they hatch? Would they continue to Guard them en they hatch? Thanks all!!

Reefing Madness · Mar 11, 2015

Bongo Shrimp · Mar 12, 2015

You would have to remove the eggs and then allow them to hatch in another tank as the fry would never stand a chance in the main tank. The fry hatch under developed and do not feed immediately. They will also require very small first foods. One attempt to raise queen triggerfish which I have read about used wild collected plankton and they tried some cultured copepods. It was discovered that they were eating a type of cyclopoid copepod and possibly several others, nauplii to adult after several dph. The real tough part is that the larvae were very delicate and there is not a known protocol for breeding them yet, even though it has been done before from what I have heard.

Boboe77 · Mar 13, 2015

Bongo Shrimp said:
You would have to remove the eggs and then allow them to hatch in another tank as the fry would never stand a chance in the main tank. The fry hatch under developed and do not feed immediately. They will also require very small first foods. One attempt to raise queen triggerfish which I have read about used wild collected plankton and they tried some cultured copepods. It was discovered that they were eating a type of cyclopoid copepod and possibly several others, nauplii to adult after several dph. The real tough part is that the larvae were very delicate and there is not a known protocol for breeding them yet, even though it has been done before from what I have heard.

Thanks for the knowledge Bongo Shrimp!