Inverts that will never be put in my tank again

Zoaelite · #1 10-26-2009, 08:11 PM

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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 · #2 10-27-2009, 12:09 AM

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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

fiorano · #3 10-27-2009, 03:44 AM

i have an emerald that is 2 inches across as well and he has never caused me any problems what so ever. but im with ll the people who are against hermits i hated mine cause they just kept eating all my snails. so now they're slowly disappearing as they become mantis food haha. i would also never buy an urchin again as i am against gluing all my corals and rocks together and they seem to never like my style of aquascaping and think it should all be bulldozed to the ground

Samw · #4 03-09-2011, 02:50 AM

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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.

reeferious · #5 03-09-2011, 03:39 AM

my fascination with fire leads me to the logical step of keeping creatures with fiery disposition. for a few months a blue ring octopus shared tank space with red fire urchins, red fire anemonies and fire corals. occasional hand brushes reminds me just how potent these stinging creatures are. the blue ring though deadly is just the shyest creature there is and it's a rare treat for me to even get a glimpse; but just the same i will not be tempted into keeping a second one again. no second chance once it sinks its beak into you.

#6 03-09-2011, 03:42 AM

First off I find it amazing to hear people say the only have 2 snails in a 180G aquarium. I must have 25-30. I do find the odd empty shell but have also seen a few hermits with an upgraded home due to those shells. As for the hermits I have found them to be killing off each other but not not in massive numbers.

I have 3 common and 2 tuxedo Urchins and have found them to knock over the occational coral that is not secured very well but usually just. We have three bumble bee snail and have neve seen them on a coral but I have had a few bad spots on a some toadstool as of late (could they be to blame?) I also have 2 fire shrimp (they are always cleaning the fish) and 2 peppermint shrimp(not an once of aptasia in the tank). I also have a blue star (only see him once a month) and an emerald crab (only see him once every 2-3 months) and the cow of my tank a sea hare. He is by far the the bull of the tank, he knocks over any and everything, I swear he rearranges my rock for me. We give him a small sheet of nori everyonce in a while to supplement his diet every once in a while but he has been in the tank for about 6 months without any hair algae.

I dont know if I would put in the bumble bee snails again but the rest of my clean up crew we love. I never (I mean NEVER) have to clean the back wall of the tank or the overflows, (if they look a little dirty I just drop a few snail in the over flow, and its clean in two days)

toytech · #7 03-09-2011, 05:01 AM

I regret a realy big hermit i bought " oh ya hes totaly reef safe " then he ate most of my new duncan , and then there was the pencil urchin of death . Ate 4 corals and would chase down my starfish and eat his legs , figured that one out too late.Traded the pencil for a long spine man what a difference , now i have a tuxedo and hes great too.

silentcivilian · #8 03-09-2011, 06:12 AM

Sooo... my invert population is very very diverse.. I have snails of all kinds shapes and sizes.. from bumbles to mexicans to troch and the spiney astrias (excuse the spelling, you get the idea) I have shimp, I have crabs, blue legged, halloween, scarlets, little tiny algae crabs, emerals somewhere.. my pom pom MIA for almost 9 months... could actually be gone now.. not sure.. sand shifting starfish... they all reign terror on each other but still co-exsist.. the only snails I have that set me off are the ones I didnt buy that grow in tubes and spin webs.. I HATE THEM! they can bugger off so many corals sooo fast..