Blue Throat Trigger cooking recipes (comedy thread)

Reefer1978 · Jul 6, 2019

Please don't take the title seriously, I wouldn't hurt my animals!!!!

So are Blue Throat Triggers reef safe? Let me tell you a story of my cute guy. Came in from Philippines as a pup, about 1" long with no color, just looked silver. Was a shy guy for the first 2 months, barely coming out but quickly became the bulldog of the tank. No one eats before him, and his diet is anything from pellets, to frozen mysis, to my fingers.

It took me a while to figure out what's going on with my zoa population. Apparently the bulldog is hungry and I don't feed him enough. List of casualties is growing:

30+ polyp colony of Speckled Kracks (first victim, bulldog likes filet mignon apparently)
11 polyp Hallucinations -- this is when I caught him eating zoa and moved all my other priced zoa into my frag tank. Unfortunately damage to both specks and hallucinations was done and they left-over polyps melted.
an unknown number of $5 zoa that somehow are still outgrowing his mayhem. I am writing this in front of the tank while listening to him eat them.

So my options are:

Let it be - this is his world, feed zoa so they continue to outgrow the king
Put the dog up for adoption
Fry him, grill him with some lemon juice on a cedar plank

lion king · Jul 6, 2019

Find the corals he doesnt care about ane keep him. While the blue throat is the most successful reef safe triggers, I'll put it at 50/50 if you actually get a true reef blue throat, and that' usually because the tank just doesn't have anything he's interested in. Hopefully you did your research and knew the risk going in, so you should keep the fish. Its sad so many people lie about "reef safe" triggers or angels for that matter, you see its more of an exception than the rule. And once a hobbyist makes a bad decision, some find it hard to admit. I've busted my own friends lying about triggers and angels that did damage to their reefs. WHY.

Reefer1978 · Jul 7, 2019

lion king said:
Find the corals he doesnt care about ane keep him. While the blue throat is the most successful reef safe triggers, I'll put it at 50/50 if you actually get a true reef blue throat, and that' usually because the tank just doesn't have anything he's interested in. Hopefully you did your research and knew the risk going in, so you should keep the fish. Its sad so many people lie about "reef safe" triggers or angels for that matter, you see its more of an exception than the rule. And once a hobbyist makes a bad decision, some find it hard to admit. I've busted my own friends lying about triggers and angels that did damage to their reefs. WHY.

I did do the research and there were plenty of threads about reef-safe triggers that made me question "with caution" label on live aquaria. I am keeping him for now as I may be getting a fish only tank in the near future and he would be perfect for that. I don't know why people don't admit mistakes, maybe just human nature.

EmdeReef · Jul 7, 2019

Every fish is unique and every tank is different. I’ve kept reef-safe triggers in my tanks and they never did anything but move a few shells of clams I fed. I didn’t keep softies though.

I have 8 “with caution” or “not reef safe” angels and 2 “no” butterflies in my current tank, they don’t bother my sps frags for now at least. Doesn’t mean they never nip. I also grow 4 large sponges which have survived and grown over the last 8-9 months. I actually got them partly in hope to entice some more difficult angels to eat but they don’t...you just never know. On the other hand my quoyi ate a frogspawn

Always have a backup plan...

Reefer1978 · Jul 7, 2019

EmdeReef said:
Every fish is unique and every tank is different. I’ve kept reef-safe triggers in my tanks and they never did anything but move a few shells of clams I fed. I didn’t keep softies though.

I have 8 “with caution” or “not reef safe” angels and 2 “no” butterflies in my current tank, they don’t bother my sps frags for now at least. Doesn’t mean they never nip. I also grow 4 large sponges which have survived and grown over the last 8-9 months. I actually got them partly in hope to entice some more difficult angels to eat but they don’t...you just never know. On the other hand my quoyi ate a frogspawn

Always have a backup plan...

Indeed!!! My 150g frag system is the backup plan.