How Many Triggers?

[yellow05gt]

I was wondering how many triggers y’all would suggest for a larger system. It’s a 96”x48”x24” mixed reef. I currently only have about a 7” Niger Trigger now and he’s very social and gets along with everyone else. I have a couple snowflake eels, bicolor Fiji Foxface, scribbled rabbit fish, purple tang, scopas tang, and a quoyi parrotfish.
My thoughts on additions are a pair of blue throats, sargassum, and a pair of crosshatch. Any other ones y’all can think of that would be good reef safe additions?

 

[Hal3134]

I have a 250g with a 6 inch Niger. I tried to add a 4 inch blue throat, but the Niger bullied it to death in a week.

 

[lion king]

Nigers do get tough at that size for the addition of many species, especially other triggers. The only ones I would try would be a pair of crosshatch, because they will have the size advantage usually coming in a large size. The other 2 will likely not be able to stand up to the initial attacks from the niger, they are on the wimpy side of triggers. How a fish gets along with existing tank mates is much different than how they treat new additions.

 

[Shock1K9]

I’ve had 7 very aggressive triggers since they were small, adding the most aggressive to my collection last. They appear to be doing extremely well with very little aggression. I have a Rectangular and Picasso that fuss occasionally but everything else is fine. Getting them extremely small appears to have worked thus far. This will shock most, but I have a Titan, Blueline, and Undulated in this group of triggers and they are living peacefully together as a community. My reef tank with clowns, chromis, and damsels is much more chaotic than my predator tank. Triggers get a bad rap because of bad experiences that I attribute to tank size, poorly planned introductions, and what they read on the internet. When I post pics of Triggers happily greeting me as I enter the room swimming closely together, begging for food and eating together as a pack, people appear to be shocked to see this.

 

[Darth Dumbas]

I’ve had 7 very aggressive triggers since they were small, adding the most aggressive to my collection last. They appear to be doing extremely well with very little aggression. I have a Rectangular and Picasso that fuss occasionally but everything else is fine. Getting them extremely small appears to have worked thus far. This will shock most, but I have a Titan, Blueline, and Undulated in this group of triggers and they are living peacefully together as a community. My reef tank with clowns, chromis, and damsels is much more chaotic than my predator tank. Triggers get a bad rap because of bad experiences that I attribute to tank size, poorly planned introductions, and what they read on the internet. When I post pics of Triggers happily greeting me as I enter the room swimming closely together, begging for food and eating together as a pack, people appear to be shocked to see this.

wow, that is interesting. I've always thought that it might be possible if a tank was sufficiently large, after all, how do they all share the same ocean? The question is: how large? 1000 gallons? more?