Trigger

[Cb24]

What is a good diet for a bursa triggerfish?

 

[Cb24]

Also would it eat the two cleaner shrimp in my tank?

 

[igibson]

I copied and pasted this from liveaquaria.com, hope it helps
"The Bursa Triggerfish needs a varied diet of meaty foods including; squid, krill, clams, small fish and hard shelled shrimp to help wear down their ever growing teeth."

 

[Cb24]

What do you think it would do to my cleaner shrimp? And clown fish????

 

[igibson]

I don't have any experience with that trigger so hopefully somebody who does will chime in. I'm sure your clowns will be alright, but your shrimp will be at risk.

 

[Bectan01]

It will most certainly go after the inverts, can you re home them before the carnage? This isn't the same tank that had ich a few weeks ago is it? Hope not

 

[Bectan01]

Oh wait, do you have it or just thinking about it?

 

[Cb24]

I don't have it and the ich is gone

 

[Monroe10]

My friend had a Niger trigger and a orange line(don't know real name) with a clown for years and never bothered it.

 

[Aajvell93]

I also have a niger trigger. Have had him a few months and has not touched my little crabs. He is in with a yellow tang right now. They had problems the first day, but now I see them
Swim together all the time. From what I have gathered, it really just depends on the fish. I've read that yellow tang is not good with a trigger and was told that at my fish store, but I got him anyways.

 

[Damarferg]

What do you think it would do to my cleaner shrimp? And clown fish????

I have both a cleaner shrimp and a clown my trigger doesn't bother them infact my trigger sleeps by my cleaner shrimp and gets cleaned I have a bluejaw trigger. But he went after my hermit crab though