What is your favorite Trigger?

67chevellemalibu2 · May 15, 2018

soggytees said:
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 · May 15, 2018

I love crosshatch triggers but clown triggers are my favorite

tkiry1 · May 18, 2018

Golden heart trigger too..

Carlo Melluzzo · May 25, 2018

lion king · Jun 23, 2018

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 · Jun 27, 2018

n21benson said:
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 · Jul 24, 2018

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 · Jul 24, 2018

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

lion king · Jul 24, 2018

alton said:
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 · Jul 24, 2018

colin obrien said:
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 · Jul 24, 2018

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 · Jul 24, 2018

Maniacodesrecifs said:
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 · Jul 24, 2018

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 · Jul 25, 2018

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

Alex

Reeefninja · Aug 3, 2018

Wow that looks beautiful

Nick Gianakos · Aug 9, 2018

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

jmccown · Aug 22, 2018

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

lion king · Sep 4, 2018

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".