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Melichthys niger
Range Circumtropical
Habitat Open waters, shallows, exposed reefs, 5-35 metres (16-115 feet)
Size 25 centimetres (10 inches)
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The Black Triggerfish (0 words) |
 | The Black Triggerfish is a large fish from the family Balistidae. |
| Due to their large adult size it is recommended to keep your Black Trigger in an aquarium no smaller than 135 gallons in volume. |
| Triggerfish should not be kept in reef tanks as they will eat crustaceans and essential mobile and sessile invertebrates. |
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Black Triggerfish, Sufflamen chrysopterum (208 words) |
| A Black Triggerfish at a depth of 17m, North Solitary Island, New South Wales, October 1999. |
| A juvenile Black Triggerfish at a depth of 20m, North Solitary Island, New South Wales, January 1998. |
| The Black Triggerfish is brown with a green to yellow stripe from the eye to the pectoral fin base. |
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