sglazne
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I purchased my first trigger, A Crosshatch Triggerfish from an online vendor. He came in Thurday looking very healthy. I didn't realize a 7-8" trigger is thick and carries some weight. So after acclimating him I put him in my 280. I thought, now I know why people don't recommend a trigger in a reef tank. Not that he was eating anything but just running into everything, corals, frag rack, blowers... After he knocked over the same frag I reached in to set it back up and he ran into my arm!! Yep it scared me the first time, He did it like two more times. He would be great at NASCAR!!! He goes fast and turns left and doesn't care if he hits anything. That is about all he does now, goes fast and turns left. round and round he goes. I know when he is comming out of turn two cause I can hear the water splash over the overflow. His grove is at the top of the tank. You think I am kidding, I am not. Now that he has his grove he doesn't hit as much as he stays in this same grove. Just to mess with him i put my red plastic dixie cup in his grove and he swam right into it?!?!?!. I poured him out, watched him go fast and turn left several more times and put the cup in his grove, and yep he came around and swam into it again!?!?! Now this is strange?? Right?? Ok so how about another test, he is going fast turning left so I get a net out and put it in his path. No way he will swim into a net, right? Wrong! Yep, he swims into the net, what the heck. Can triggers see in front of them?? I let him go, fast turn left a couple more times. This time i put the net in his grove just after he swims by. I want the net to be in the water for for the entire lap. Thinking maybe he can see it on the back straight a way. Around he come out of turn 4 and right into the net. Now I am not moving the net trying to catch him, he just swims right into the net because it is in his grove and he won't change courses. Do you think he is blind. His eyes are not cloudy. Just heard him come out of turn two and splash water over the overflow!!! Any ideas out there????