Inverts that will never be put in my tank again

kien · #1 10-27-2009, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

Orange one is a fromia too

Really?? It looks exactly like my blue Linckia except for being orange. Looks nothing like my red Fromia.. weird.. and confused now
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fishytime · #2 10-27-2009, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

Really?? It looks exactly like my blue Linckia except for being orange. Looks nothing like my red Fromia.. weird.. and confused now
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The red(with tiny black pores?) one is likely milliporella and the name of the other one escapes me now....It is in the invert edition of the Baensch(sp?) atlas at the shop.....No such thing as an orange linckia....as far as my research has shown.

....no need to be confused......they are commonly mislabeled.

kien · #3 10-27-2009, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

The red(with tiny black pores?) one is likely milliporella and the name of the other one escapes me now....It is in the invert edition of the Baensch(sp?) atlas at the shop.....No such thing as an orange linckia....as far as my research has shown.

....no need to be confused......they are commonly mislabeled.

Cool, thanks! Learn something new every day. I've always assumed he was an orange linckia. He still looks and behaves exactly like the blue one though

I do remember now that I once had a cowrie snail because I thought they were cool. He ended up eating things that I did not want him to eat

I still think they look cool every time I see them at the LFS but don't want to risk a repeat of that incident.

TheMikey · #4 10-27-2009, 10:24 PM

When I finished cycling my tank I added a cleanup crew with a bunch of snails and three hermits. A green reef and two red hermits. The green one got much larger than the red and quickly made meals of two hermits and most of the snails in the tank. Despite the fact it was the biggest one in the tank and I had a bevy of shells available for him to move into when he grew out of his current shell.

As much as I like hermits, I'll be hard pressed to add them to any other tank that I do.

ElGuappo · #5 09-16-2010, 07:29 AM

well i have been sampling a variety of hermits lately and now know of about 3 types i wont reuse due to size or aggression. the green ones for algae they get huge and in my bowfront i have a few wierd ones that are starting to get huge..

lastlight · #6 09-16-2010, 07:41 AM

My emerald started yanking sps polyps so I got rid of him. My hermits (5) have not killed my 2 snails. My powerhead got one snail awhile back and the other snail has been fine.

They are clumsy but seem harmless. I like watching inverts a lot and while the hermits sorta plow over things sometimes If I *do* want to remove them it's so easy as they're slow!

Flash · #7 09-16-2010, 03:45 PM

every once and a while one of my bigger hermits will take out a smaller one... my snails are all fine, i have 5 mexican turbos, they do a great job...I had an emerald, every time a smaller crab, snail or fish swam by he got all ****y and tried to grab at them... well one day I watched my female Perc take him out! and that was the last emerald that i will put in my tank!