How Afraid are you of Titan Triggers?

[emttim]

Funny thing is I read an article in Alert Diver a couple months ago about someone who had a boxing match underwater with a Titan Trigger where he had to repeatedly punch, yes punch, the fish in it's face for it to go away and leave him alone while swimming away laterally.

I wondered if maybe that fish just was crazy or if psychotically aggressive behavior is normal for those fish during nesting. Now I know.

 

[Damselfish]

I've read about the cone shaped territory and how you should swim away horizontally and not up. Yeah right - the one I had a run in with did NOT read that and chased me a good ways laterally. Didn't get me though.

 

[RikRaeder]

I think that we can all agree...trigger fish are aggressive; and those teeth! Yuck!