Triggers!

BTW, nice trigger John. [smiley=smile.gif]

Mike

 

Mike,

Triggers are so hard or reef critters. But then that is what they are ment to eat. Here in Indonesia they are abundant, and that is an understatement. Kind of like sunfish in your favorite fishing place. At about 10 Inches, they panfry real good, once you get that tough skin off of them.

I had a trigger years ago when I was studying at University. Well, one might question the studying part. Anyway, his tank mate was a lion. In a 29 gal. Great fun. You could hear the trigger crunch his meal of bait fish. The lion just kind of slurped it down, but the attack was fun to watch.

Yeh, triggers are cool. Again, when I was in school, that clown trigger at 2.5 inches carried a $400 price tag. I have no idea what they go for now in the States. I know they come from around Hawaii, maybe John will have one in the shipment he is getting in from Hawaii tomorrow. I don't want it, though.

Cheers,
Ray

 

Nice pic JohnO. I miss my Picasso and Queen Trigger.

They are hardier than others but almost 100% reef hazardous. Except for some Queen Triggers (Odonus Niger I believe).

And they grow BIG! And (YIPES!) taste excellent when broiled. hehehehe

 

Now i know that this is far from the norm but i kept a blue tigger with a boxing shrimp when i first kept marine fish ten years ago! he was happy eating the prawns and cocles i fed him he left well alone! only got rid of him because he outgrew the 30 inch tank and tried to nip my one feather duster which at the time was quite a rare find!

Could MacnReef please tell me where i can get aquaculture live stock from because all i can find over here in abundance i cacky coloured clownfish that even my 5mm starfish would treat as a snack!

The way i see thing is that hobbiest albeit, are taking livestock from the oceans, but in doing so are expanding our knowledge of these creatures so we can better understand them! ( without collecting species from the wild darwin would not have got very far)

do people living in areas where sewage is pumped into the sea stop going to the toilet to prevent polution the oceans?

i would rather have a select group of animals in my tank and experience them whilst i am still on this earth. The world is constantly changing and one day mother nature wil be fed up of us, and do something to change that, but for now keep on reefing!!!!

But of course we need to look after the reefs and other biotypes! But you must fully understand something before you can truly help mother nature on her true path! and that i feel we are doing and our payment is what we can create in our living rooms!

Plus my government decides on what i can and cant do, and ill enjoy this untill they say i cant!

If people want to stop depleating a never ending circle of live that is our oceans then send all your fish back!

 

geologeek,

I agree with a lot of what you wrote, although your toilet analogy is a bit on the nose

The Picasso trigger pictured above lived quite happily with 2 Coral Banded Shrimps and never seemed to threaten them at all, however, like ALL wild fish I am sure that given the opportunity or the hunger he would have eaten them.

Here in Melbourne the only aquacultured fish that I know of are ( as you so susinctly put it ) cacky coloured clownfish. Maybe that's because the GBR is fairly close and fish are relatively cheap. However, I do believe, that the day they stop hobbiest from buying wild caught fish is the day the hobby ( as it is now ) will die as it becomes popularist and every house will have a Nemo. I hope that never happens.

Puppies are not just for Christmas :-(

John