Anemone crab with clown fish

Trucker84 · 08/08/2008, 01:05 AM

Ok, so i ordered this anemone crab with my cleaner pack thinking it would be a hermit crab with an anemone on its back. I know that sounds silly but i saw this ocean video i got from costco with a hermit crab that had a collection of anemones on his back. They even showed him switching shells and pulling the old anemones off and putting them on his new shell. Anyway, thats obviously not what i got. I got a crab living in my anemone. That is all well except i have a pair of percula clown fish showing up soon and i am worried about how they are going to contend for the space in the anemone. He isn't really very big you know. Any one have experience with this?

inachu · 08/08/2008, 06:06 AM

I'm still a noob to salt tanks but I have seen my one crab do this before I got rid of him because he was a hunter hermit. I thought it was weird he would not eat the stuff on his shell but he attacked my sick nemo.... I had to get rid of both.

vito is hooked · 08/08/2008, 02:25 PM

I got a porcline anemone crab that takes a chunk of my clowns fins every once in awile, soon as i catch him , he goes in the ref with the other trouble makers.

rustybucket145 · 08/08/2008, 02:36 PM

Your clowns may not even try to host the nem. What kind of anemone is it anyways?

Trucker84 · 08/08/2008, 02:40 PM

its a bubble anemone

crvz · 08/08/2008, 02:58 PM

BTAs are not a natural anemone with the perculas, so it may not be an issue. the clowns may never approach the anemone.

Saltz Creep · 08/08/2008, 04:24 PM

Toddrtrex · 08/15/2008, 02:47 PM

I would be more concerned about having an anemone in a tank that is only 4 weeks old.

kau_cinta_ku · 08/15/2008, 02:56 PM

what are your water parameters?

numbers please.

inachu · 08/15/2008, 03:14 PM

yeah when i did not research enough I found out too late and my even at 6 months my anemone died. My tank was not mature enough.

08/08/2008, 01:05 AM	#1
Trucker84 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 20	Anemone crab with clown fish Ok, so i ordered this anemone crab with my cleaner pack thinking it would be a hermit crab with an anemone on its back. I know that sounds silly but i saw this ocean video i got from costco with a hermit crab that had a collection of anemones on his back. They even showed him switching shells and pulling the old anemones off and putting them on his new shell. Anyway, thats obviously not what i got. I got a crab living in my anemone. That is all well except i have a pair of percula clown fish showing up soon and i am worried about how they are going to contend for the space in the anemone. He isn't really very big you know. Any one have experience with this?

08/08/2008, 02:25 PM	#3
vito is hooked Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Port Charlotte FL Posts: 845	I got a porcline anemone crab that takes a chunk of my clowns fins every once in awile, soon as i catch him , he goes in the ref with the other trouble makers. __________________ IT'S THE SAME THING-ONLY DIFFERENT Current Tank Info: 300gal with 180gal Ref/Sump M/H lighting 2-175 watt 10.000 K 3 150watt 15.000 K 8 blue actinics 4 Purple OCTOPUS Extreme-X200 Skimmer Max Flow 4200gph Return

08/08/2008, 02:36 PM	#4
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	Your clowns may not even try to host the nem. What kind of anemone is it anyways? __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

08/08/2008, 02:58 PM	#6
crvz Team RC Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: houstonia Posts: 7,989	BTAs are not a natural anemone with the perculas, so it may not be an issue. the clowns may never approach the anemone. __________________ -Chris- You don't win friends with salad. "Look! They're trying to learn for free!" ... "Use your phony guns as clubs!" Current Tank Info: rectangluar? wet?

08/08/2008, 04:24 PM	#7
Saltz Creep Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Hickville, FL Posts: 3,728	__________________ veni, vidi, vici piscis merda

08/08/2008, 06:06 AM	#2
inachu Moved On Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Maryland, metro area Posts: 1,219	I'm still a noob to salt tanks but I have seen my one crab do this before I got rid of him because he was a hunter hermit. I thought it was weird he would not eat the stuff on his shell but he attacked my sick nemo.... I had to get rid of both.

08/08/2008, 02:40 PM	#5
Trucker84 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 20	its a bubble anemone

08/15/2008, 02:47 PM	#8
Toddrtrex Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Carol Stream, IL Posts: 23,162	I would be more concerned about having an anemone in a tank that is only 4 weeks old. __________________ Click my name and then "visit toddrtrex's homepage" for tank pictures Current Tank Info: 210g reef and 65g reef

08/15/2008, 02:56 PM	#9
kau_cinta_ku Moved On Join Date: May 2005 Location: NW Iowa Posts: 8,669	what are your water parameters? numbers please.

08/15/2008, 03:14 PM	#10
inachu Moved On Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Maryland, metro area Posts: 1,219	yeah when i did not research enough I found out too late and my even at 6 months my anemone died. My tank was not mature enough.