Leah, you have no problem with your stars being with your crabs? I had a pair of Pom Poms and numerous of hermits and snails, but seem to find remnents of shell bits around where my yellow brittle star hangs out. What is your secret? I loved the cute Pom Pom crabs! They look like lil clowns all painted up! They even bred a few times, but I never saw the lil ones get bigger around my tank after she finally decided to let go of them. Really neat thing to see when she is carrying around caviar. Maybe they turned into fish food. But the adults did turn into starfish food.
I am considering getting rid of my star fish just so I can home more hermits and maybe save a spot for the pom poms again.
About Penticton, I don't go down too often, but definately when I do my bf and I would love to see how you run your tank. Well, I would like to see the set up and well I think he just likes the fish. The work of it doesn't interest him! LOL