Inverts that will never be put in my tank again - Page 5

Flash · #41 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!

DiverDude · #42 09-16-2010, 07:48 PM

I have 4 or 5 hermits and 2 or 3 bumblebee snails and I've never had an issue with any of them in my 30 gal....

AquaticFinatic · #43 03-09-2011, 01:17 AM

I never new about bumbles I have around 10 in mine but don't think I have any issues.

daniella3d · #44 03-09-2011, 02:26 AM

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.

Madreefer · #45 03-09-2011, 02:41 AM

My biggest regret was a red reef lobster. He would attack any fish that swam by the cave he lived in. Gave it to a freind and it started eating his fish. He disposed of it and I never asked how.

Samw · #46 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 · #47 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.

#48 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 · #49 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 · #50 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..