What is your favorite Trigger?

[67chevellemalibu2]

Which triggerfish is your favorite?

My favorites are clown triggers!

I also like bluelines, and undulates.

I would love to get a pair of Cross hatch triggers too, but they're a bit outside the tank budget for a while.

Clown and Niger

 

[EliteReefing1023]

I love crosshatch triggers but clown triggers are my favorite

 

[tkiry1]

Golden heart trigger too..

 

[Carlo Melluzzo]

 

[lion king]

I don't name my fish anymore, but 30 years ago my 1st tank had a niger I called Drac. Now you know why, those teeth crack me up.

 

[siniang]

The humuhumunukunukuāpua‘a (or reef triggerfish)

Wow, awesome colors. Mine isn't nearly as vibrant.



(and still shy when I get really close to the glass, so I still can't get closer pictures)

Which makes me wonder, I know they can change color to some degree based on mood, but I take it some coloration, like the fin bands, is genetic, right? Or do they become more vibrant with age? Or is it sex-dependent? I thought you couldn't tell the sex from the genotype, but I really don't know.

On-topic:

My favorites are, obviously , the Humu rectangulus and the Hawaiian Black Trigger. My husband prefers the Picasso humu, which caused quite some debate on which one to get

 

[colin obrien]

easy for me! the humu trigger or what people also mistakenly call the Picasso trigger, the humu trigger is the slowest growing organism on the planet. its also the only species of trigger fish to naturally hunt down and eat small fish for food in the wild.

 

[alton]

They are so cute when they are little, too bad they grow up

 

[lion king]

They are so cute when they are little, too bad they grow up

I see you took that pic in 2003, how long did he live in that reef and what was your experience. Thanks

 

[siniang]

easy for me! the humu trigger or what people also mistakenly call the Picasso trigger.

Uhm, no.

Both the Lagoon trigger (Rhinecanthus aculeatus) and the Reef trigger (Rhinecanthus rectangulus) share the same Hawaiian name: Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. Both have other common names, including Picasso for aculeatus and Rectangular for rectangulus. Actually, in Hawaii, the reef triggerfish is more commonly refered to as "humu" and when people say "humu" I've always heard them mean the rectangulus, never the Picasso (which doesn't mean it's not used and I just haven't met those) - but maybe that's only because it's the state fish.

Technically, "humu trigger" isn't a name, it's a mix of the two common names.

 

[alton]

About 6 months in the 29g. I went into one of my LFS and for $20 I picked up this 1" clown trigger. He out grew this tank fairly fast, but he was so cute while in there

 

[Javier Leon]

I do love the Odonus Niger. Safe in my reef except for my fingers!

Love that one but I had to get it out since it did ripped both of my ice clowns fish leaving nothing from them

 

[Scott Hawaii]

Clown for sure! They have their own personality. Mine will let you pet him. You can do anything to him if he knows food is coming. He reminds me of a lab dog.

 

[Alex Costa]

I purchase recently a Pink Tail.
I wanted a reef safe trigger, so...

Alex

 

[Reeefninja]

Wow that looks beautiful

 

[Nick Gianakos]

I have a Niger and a Assasi Trigger. The Assasi Trigger takes the cake for me.

 

[jmccown]

queen trigger is my favorite by far. I had one about 10 years ago that was 18-20" long. Extremely aggressive.

 

[lion king]

I had to get my niger a buddy, he was going stir crazy since the clown and blueline didn't make it through velvet. the niger pulled through with 2 rounds of cupramine. He was building huge mounds of substrate and wrestling with the jeweled eel for fun, he was getting all torn up, but that's what they do. Now he has a buddy to wrestle with and pal around.

The picasso definitely has one of the best personalities, he follows me around and hams it up big time, and I've only had him a couple of months. Love the snout on these guys when they get to this size, he's about 5".

 

[tkiry1]

One of my favorites...

 

[Lukeh]

Picked up this MONSTER blue line trigger last week. By far my favorite fish I've ever owned.