hermits VS. polyps/coral?! (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

I was at the fish place on 242 looking in their live rock tank when I found a small piece (1 pound) that was covered in green polyps. I have had my tank going for a year now and have a few galveston fish and shrimp along with a percula clown and black and white striped damsel. I've also got several galveston anenomes. My worry is about my galveston hermit crabs. They are pretty small, because I don't give them any larger shells to move into, but they do a great job keeping things clean. From the best I can find out the liverock/polyps I got resemble green button polyps or boulder brain coral. Will the hermits bother the live rock?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Guest]

I wouldn't trust the galveston critters, they have been known to be agressive towards fish, there is no telling what they would do to a pretty coral. There might be others who can contridict though. Glaveston crabs are best in FO where they can clean up after the messier eaters.

 

[CBBSteve]

Just curious, what kind of Galveston fish do you have in there?

 

[cparka23]

I'd back away from the galveston hermit crabs. hear they can be a headache.

 

[Guest]

I did have some pretty interesting ones up until about a month ago. Now I only have a few gobys, killifish, and sheapshead minnow. Along with some hermit crabs, snails, anenomes, ghost shrimp and one regular shrimp. Over Christmas I was out of town for a while and all my interesting ones died from ick. I had blennys, a remora, sargassum angler, trigger fish, flounder, pipefish, trout, pompano and sergeant major. All were 2 inches or less, with the exception of the 5 inch remora (stuck on a shark I caught) and pipefish. I've got some ick treatment stuff that literally saved the rest of them overnight. I'll be able to replenish the tank once it warms up a little and I make it down for some more fishing. Hopefully get a puffer this year.

 

[Guest]

You should just keep is a galveston critter tank.

 

[CBBSteve]

Interesting mix of fish there. Isn't the sargeant major in the damsel family? How does it get along with the striped damsel?

 

[Guest]

The sergeant majors died while I was out of town, so they didn't get to meet the striped, but they did get along with my blue damsel I had at the time.

I had originally planned on it being only a galveston tank, but after my interesting fish died the tank has been pretty barren and it's too difficult to get down to Galveston and catch some more with this weather. Hopefully I'll be in a bigger place by summer and I can set up a tank for local and one for tropical.