We just got a 100g tank. We plan on making it a FOWLR. We are going to put a snowflake eel, I think they come from liveaquaria in the 6-8" range. We're also going to get a picasso trigger. The trigger comes in like 1-3" I think. Ive read that they are VERY slow growers (picasso) Im just hoping the eel doesnt make a meal out of him while he's a only a few inches. Thoughts?
getting a snowflake and trigger?
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I think I might be able to add some thoughts to this topic. For one thing, the trigger will grow faster then a SFE and that is the bottom line and I always said that with so young a juvenile moray, its best to house it in its own tank with no possitively aggressive tank mates. So the fear of concern is the other way around that you be needing to show concerns for the eel then the trigger. 
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Yes I agree with oldmanofthesea triggers grow fast, I have a Niger with a snowflake in a 180 GAL. The trigger was about the size of a quarter when I bought him and now he is about 3" to 4", they will do fine the Pissco is more aggressive then the Niger Trigger. My snowflake is about 8" now but I'm having a problem with his coloration which OldManOfTheSea is helping me with.
I be concern for water quality and a nutritional diet in which do include a variety of crab for here you must I know or assume that your much LR for hiding places and depending on the aggression level of your trigger being that your a real timid eel that normal has no defense against a trigger for even larger morays such as the green or tess, you name it that you may think that a trigger is totally with no defense for itself. In which would be a serious mistake on ones part for the eel in taking a trigger fish as its prey is sometimes no easy task, specially when the trigger is a large growth size.
Eels for this reason if they cannot cause serious injury to the trigger with all its trashing about and trying to twist around in trying to force the eel in releasing its prey. The one thing is that the eel what if it be the Tess or green and even the giant moray, they all fear in causing themselves some serious damage in their necks in which is like what we as people have in certain points in our human body and that in which leaves the eel in caution in not to damage their Ligament that is in their neck for if this were to happen, they would not survive and starve to death. That is why when anyone hears a triggerfish escaped some eel and you want to know how could the fish manage its escape. I tell you that for it could also be that your young SFE is feeling intimidated for as well, the younger the eel, the greater chances for it to feel it is intimidated by other tank mates.
Like your eel is most likely cautious into moving out into an open area, is it?
Also you have these two in quite a large tank and im also wondering about if your any dead zones?
Now you say I been helping you with the problem you mentioned, now I do forget many I spoken to when much time gone by and as of right now I not remember anything as this. It not however mean that I wouldn't` assist you if I can.
Kodiak, I not would think you get anyone who would agree with your thoughts on a SFE in a 30 and many will agree with a 55 and im not one of those that the smallest tank I would suggest is nothing smaller then a 75 gal tank.
tankanator, you can tell me anything that you took notice of in any actions between the two or in most in how the sfe behaved when the trigger was near by. Also at night, anything could had happened for the sfe would be on the move to where as the trigger was looking to bed down and in passing the trigger hiding spot, the eel could had its warning then by the trigger performing some sort of an attack for it would if as small as your saying would bite and trash in slapping its tail in hope that whoever the intruder be would dash away. And once this trigger is a much larger size predator and then its attacks would become relentless/ruthlessness and in this you would find that even the Niger Trigger could surprise you of something as this.
But always my bottom line when keeping so young juvenile morays, not have them in with any aggressive tank mates, specially eels like the SFE. But its color lost is either from a lack in its nutritional diet, its feeling as if its intimidated by other tank mates and water quality in which all leads to stress.
So tell me anything you can like if your tank is just a new setup or anything other you might tell to better answer your problem for if your sfe is about 8", its thin as a pencil in which makes it totally defenseless when it comes to most triggers.
I another response in another thread to comment, but it will have to wait until morning, night
Eels for this reason if they cannot cause serious injury to the trigger with all its trashing about and trying to twist around in trying to force the eel in releasing its prey. The one thing is that the eel what if it be the Tess or green and even the giant moray, they all fear in causing themselves some serious damage in their necks in which is like what we as people have in certain points in our human body and that in which leaves the eel in caution in not to damage their Ligament that is in their neck for if this were to happen, they would not survive and starve to death. That is why when anyone hears a triggerfish escaped some eel and you want to know how could the fish manage its escape. I tell you that for it could also be that your young SFE is feeling intimidated for as well, the younger the eel, the greater chances for it to feel it is intimidated by other tank mates.
Like your eel is most likely cautious into moving out into an open area, is it?
Also you have these two in quite a large tank and im also wondering about if your any dead zones?
Now you say I been helping you with the problem you mentioned, now I do forget many I spoken to when much time gone by and as of right now I not remember anything as this. It not however mean that I wouldn't` assist you if I can.
Kodiak, I not would think you get anyone who would agree with your thoughts on a SFE in a 30 and many will agree with a 55 and im not one of those that the smallest tank I would suggest is nothing smaller then a 75 gal tank.
tankanator, you can tell me anything that you took notice of in any actions between the two or in most in how the sfe behaved when the trigger was near by. Also at night, anything could had happened for the sfe would be on the move to where as the trigger was looking to bed down and in passing the trigger hiding spot, the eel could had its warning then by the trigger performing some sort of an attack for it would if as small as your saying would bite and trash in slapping its tail in hope that whoever the intruder be would dash away. And once this trigger is a much larger size predator and then its attacks would become relentless/ruthlessness and in this you would find that even the Niger Trigger could surprise you of something as this.
But always my bottom line when keeping so young juvenile morays, not have them in with any aggressive tank mates, specially eels like the SFE. But its color lost is either from a lack in its nutritional diet, its feeling as if its intimidated by other tank mates and water quality in which all leads to stress.
So tell me anything you can like if your tank is just a new setup or anything other you might tell to better answer your problem for if your sfe is about 8", its thin as a pencil in which makes it totally defenseless when it comes to most triggers.
I another response in another thread to comment, but it will have to wait until morning, night
i was assuming it would be a much to small of a tank for one, but i think they are awesome. O well, maybe in the future ill get a tank to house one. The only thing is i leave in june for the marines, and i wont be home much at all, so i have to leave my 30g to my mother :wall: lets hope she can hold it together. So i havent even considered a biger tank due to that. Transfering a tank from Ohio to califorina doesnt sound easy either...