Compatibility between trigger and starfish; tiger cowrie and corals.

Jmas4 · Sep 30, 2018

I am breaking down my fowlr and moving my livestock to a reef tank. Will a picasso trigger attack a serpent starfish? What about a tiger sea cucumber? He is well fed and doesn't attack turbo snails but maybe that's because they are big. I also have a tiger cowrie that will have to be moved. I heard mixed results about them being reef safe. He didn't eat my (one) mushroom or anemones that were in my fowlr. What are your guys's experiences?

Waters · Oct 1, 2018

They normally won't eat coral at all but usually anything else can be on the menu....definitely wouldn't call them reef safe. Mine is in a reef tank but he wiped out all of my snails, crabs, and urchins months ago. He doesn't touch my sand sifting starfish though.

Beardo · Oct 1, 2018

Can't comment on the picasso trigger but tried a tiger cowrie once. It decimated my zoas but nothing else.

Jmas4 · Oct 2, 2018

Waters said:
They normally won't eat coral at all but usually anything else can be on the menu....definitely wouldn't call them reef safe. Mine is in a reef tank but he wiped out all of my snails, crabs, and urchins months ago. He doesn't touch my sand sifting starfish though.

Mine never did that. They don't seem fast enough to eat cuc.

Beardo said:
Can't comment on the picasso trigger but tried a tiger cowrie once. It decimated my zoas but nothing else.

That's a shame, he us really pretty. I guess I'll have to return him to the lfs.

Waters · Oct 2, 2018

Jmas4 said:
Mine never did that. They don't seem fast enough to eat cuc.

That's a shame, he us really pretty. I guess I'll have to return him to the lfs.

Wait.....I am confused.......your Triggers don't seem fast enough to east snails and hermit crabs??