I have a 7” clown triggerfish and I’m thinking about putting him in 9’ long acrylic tank. My only concern is if he will scratch it up. It’s a bare bottom tank and I don’t keep any CUC in the display. Pls lmk your thoughts on this. Thanks.
Clown trigger & Acrylic Tank
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angelsandtangs
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Had no issues with my clown trigger but my harlequin tusk tore my acrylic tank up had to rehome him and the tank was only 3 months old too was kinda ticked .. he did not like his reflection and he would bite at it and would scratch the acrylic every time he did it
las
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I def have heard of this happening. But, I think it comes down to the particular fish. Im guessing most clown triggers wont do that. But, its an individual trait of your fish. Ive heard that full size queen triggers are the most wicked fish. Like people are afraid to do maintenence on the tank. If anyone could get a full size titan trigger that might be worse but they dont seem to grow well in captivity.
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My 10" porucpine puffer spends hours upon hours dragging her massive teeth all across my acrylic tank and leaves no scratches. The only scratches come from me when I clean the acrylic.....
This guy and two other similar beaked Puffers, Clown Trigger and a Harlequin Tusk in my acrylic tank. The trigger hasn't left any but the puffers and tusk do leave some scratches. Mighty Magnet takes care it.. The first year I had the tank I danced around getting the fish I really wanted worrying about scratches. Then I thought it through. I've had so many tanks in my lifetime from cheapo tanks to expensive starphire glass and every single one of them got scratched. So why worry now. Finally I have the fish I want and I would continue getting acrylic tanks. The scratches are all repairable.
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BigMax
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I had a 12" clown trigger, which I ended up selling to the Rainforest Café at the Mall of America. It was a great personality fish, but I also have a 400G acrylic tank. The problem was 'he' loved to swim back and forth by the front pane and every time he would turn he'd scrape his teeth on the acrylic, tons of micro scratches, finally decided to protect the tank an sold him. (Never had an issue with him biting the pane however).
BigMax
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I got the trigger when it was about 10 inches. The scratches were never 'bad', practically unnoticeable. When doing water changes I noticed lots of extremely small scratches when cleaning the acrylic, but only in the area where the trigger turned, after giving it some thought I put 2 and 2 together. All triggers are different I've had others, Huma-Huma, that never paced back and forth against the front pane, but my clowns, which I've had 2 over the years, have always been hyperactive at times. I do think it's one of the coolest fish there are and mine was so friendly it actually felt like a pet dog vs a fish, so getting him to a much bigger tank I felt was the right thing to do as well.
Would I do another one? I'd be tempted for my FOWLR tank. This particular tank has been up for 27 years and still looks very good. Oldest fish in the tank is 20+ year old a very nasty, territorial, female tomato clown
Would I do another one? I'd be tempted for my FOWLR tank. This particular tank has been up for 27 years and still looks very good. Oldest fish in the tank is 20+ year old a very nasty, territorial, female tomato clown
YOYOYOReefer
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We had a big undulated trigger that would scratch the tank by moving rocks around and laying sidways and flapping and sending substrate everywhere.. One mean fish.
