Can Triggers Be Kept With Anemoes?

[Triggerobsessed]

I hav a humu and a niger triggerfish in a 65g tank and was hoping i could put a anemone from one of my reef tanks into the trigger tank

 

[Opcn]

Do you really have a reef tank? It sounds more like you are fishing foer an answer you think you can make work, no judgement on you but since you are a new poster theres a hint of suspicion, that sort of thing happens alot here. You can keep an anemony with triggers most of the time, the triggers might take a few bites out but Ive never heard of a trigger eating a nem, I have heard of nems eating triggers. But nems are generally hard to keep, I'll have to hear more before I tell you that you have even the remotest chance of keeping onee alive for even 00.00000000000000000001% percent of its natural life time.

 

[callell]

I think a 65g is way to small for 1 Trigger letalone 2

 

[Triggerobsessed]

i hav a 29 gallon reef tank, the tank that the triggerfish are in was orginally going to be a reef tank but it has all of the equipment that is needed, live rock, lighting, sump, skimmer etc.. I hav had 4 years of experience with reefs, so the challenge of keeping the anemone will not be a problem at all. The anemone is a carpet anemone, and is about 6'' long.

 

[callell]

Carpet Nems are more likely to eat the Triggers

But I still say that 65g is undersized for Triggers

 

[Triggerobsessed]

ok, thnx for the reply

i'll look into investing in a larger tank

 

[Lynden]

But I still say that 65g is undersized for Triggers

It definetly is for some triggers, but many can be kept with other Triggers in a different genus. Xanthichthys and Melichthys (I'm getting two Melichthys ) can be kept in groups, and are docile enough to be kept with almost any fish, coral, or invertebrate. Although small shrimp are at risk.

Carpet Anemones would eat any fish that was careless enough to swim into it's tentacles or was blown into them. But Triggers are very smart fish that swim powerfully and deliberately, I can't imagine an Anemone eating one.

-Lynden

 

[Jordon]

I think a 65g is way to small for 1 Trigger letalone 2

that is correct! I personally dont think its worth the risk and effert to mod. you tank just for an anemone.