Picasso trigger

my trigger

hi i have the famous trigger fish, we also have 4 clowns a blue tang and a cardinal, now trigger as we call him entertains us,hes hilarious,ive read all these posts saying they are naughty fish but my guy,hes a good boy he doesnt pick on the fish,he does eat anything in site and rearranges the shells to how he likes it, if we put corals in, will he get sick if he eats it????or is it a no no because he will be eating it and its expensive.....i love trigger and i dont want to take him from my tank. but doesnt clowns eat coral too??? any advice would be great, thanks

 

I have a moderate sized picasso trigger in my 75g reef and he did have a love for snails, however he left my hermits and shrimp alone. As said with all fish, some are good some are bad, its just a matter of luck really. Good luck if you decide to go with it! great fish with loads of personality and extremely hardy. Mine even likes a belly rub every now and then!

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only trigger I've had is an undulated and they are evil incarnated, for some reason it got along really well with this golden damsel I had back in the day, then one day the damsel died and the trigger went insane, tore the tank up, moved every piece of rock in the tank under 5# killed all the snails and hermits, i was never brave enough to put a shrimp in there with him, after that I gave him to a friend with a small shark tank, he killed the shark that was about 1' longer than him then he got moved to a large panther grouper tank where he ended up being brunch

I do have a friend looking into one of these for a 220g FOWLR setup though I'm hoping he gets one their really pretty fish, one of my fav triggers, I just wouldn't personally ever have one again

 

i had a blue Niger Trigger in my 55 reef tank, did not touch one coral but ate the hell out of my inverts, just about had enough of him when my molly was about to give birth and he ripped open her stomach to get the babies

 

I am new to this forum and looking for information on the picasso trigger fish.I do wood carving and would like to carve one but i need real good reference photos. I need to know the scales,rays on all the fins how many.would like pictures of the top,side bottome,front and back.anybody have any you can email me or where would i find any? A reproduction of one would be better but can't find one.Any help would be great.Thanks...

 

Every fish is vastly different due to how they were raised, I had a Picasso in a reef tank with no problems AT ALL. That said, I wouldn't try it. The chances must be very slim.