Inverts that will never be put in my tank again

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

totally agree. I hate them now, all they do is mess everything up and pull frags off of the rockwork that you just mounted. imo the jackass's of the hobby

Love my emerald, hes about 2 inches across and perhaps the biggest reason there's no pest algae on any of my zoa colonies. Also love my urchin, don't even have to frag my zoas any more I just take them off the little pin cushion. If we expanded this to any animal you shouldn't put in a reef then I would have to say a red corris wrasse, the one I had was satan spawn.

[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Love my emerald, hes about 2 inches across and perhaps the biggest reason there's no pest algae on any of my zoa colonies. Also love my urchin, don't even have to frag my zoas any more I just take them off the little pin cushion. If we expanded this to any animal you shouldn't put in a reef then I would have to say a red corris wrasse, the one I had was satan spawn.

can our emerald crabs meet so that yours can tell mine the how to actually take car of a tank

[Samw]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Love my emerald, hes about 2 inches across and perhaps the biggest reason there's no pest algae on any of my zoa colonies.

+1

I have tons of videos and photos of my Emerald crabs eating bubble algae, hair algae, and turf algae. They are my number 1 favorite clean up crew. I have 4 at the moment and would welcome more. I've never seen them touch anything that they shouldn't. All of my trimma gobies are accounted for.

If there's a hermit crab that will kill snails, it is the zebra left handed hermit. Usually when a snail falls off the glass, i don't worry about it as the snail always somehow gets back on the glass. However i noticed during one period of time that more and more healthy snails ended up being empty shells. Then, on one or two occasions after I knocked a snail off (while cleaning the glass with a magnet for example) I decided to wait and see if it would climb back on the glass, only to see the zebra hermit make a straight line to the snail and kill it.

No more zebra hermits in my tank. After getting rid of my zebra hermits, I stopped losing snails regularly. Scarletts and blue legged hermits are perfectly fine in my tank though and I have dozens of those.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

emerald crabs!

Ok, you need to have an explanation, as I will never have a tank with out a couple emeralds

Steve

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

Ok, you need to have an explanation, as I will never have a tank with out a couple emeralds

Steve

Explain what? Emerald crabs are in the mithrax family.....the vast majority of the hairy legged hitchhiker crabs we find and try to remove are also from the mithrax family.....a crab is a crab is a crab....they are opportunistic and will kill, given the opportunity.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Explain what? Emerald crabs are in the mithrax family.....the vast majority of the hairy legged hitchhiker crabs we find and try to remove are also from the mithrax family.....a crab is a crab is a crab....they are opportunistic and will kill, given the opportunity.

except for the fact that the claws on the emerald crab are specilized for removing algae not for catching prey, they are flat ended to give them grip so they can pull chunks of algae off rocks, and they are not hairy.

Steve

[daniella3d]

I recently found a little hichicker crab on a frag and decided to keep it. Glad I did because he does not toutch anything in my tank and he's so cute. come to take the food from my hand.

Hope I will not regret that eventualy! I just could not kill it.

[cathyg_99]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

emerald crabs!

why? I have one in my tank and hes just fine

[Wayne]

I have also seen my emerald crab picking at SPS polyps... I gave him "the look" and he cut it out

[CandyCane]

I have 3 very small blue leg hermits living in my 2gallon frag tank. They have never once touched a coral besides by accedent tipping one over. One of them LOVES riding around on my banded trochus snail because that way he can clean the algae off the snails shell and get to the top of the tank. I also have many very small snails in the tank that the hermits just ignore since I have many already empty shells for them to move into.

Hermits are great for cleaning the sand in new tanks