Harlequin Shrimp
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Yeah I have three. Very cool shrimp. Wait till they practice swimming and find a current and swim to the other side of the tank lol! Freaked me out at first but very neat to watch. Only downfall is I cant keep a red linkia as these bastards are voracious (killed my 10" brittle star three weeks ago).
I hope mine doesn't do the swim thing as I have found that my melanurus loves to go after floating inverts, he is pretty good about leaving them alone if they are planted, but as soon as they hit the open water column, they are usually dust.
I think mine is female so I may pick up a male in the future if I find keeping it a success...
I think mine is female so I may pick up a male in the future if I find keeping it a success...
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It should be fine Mine are about 2 - 3" and they go out hunting in full light regardless of what fish swim by. Sometimes my Des or Fox gets curious and swims up to them and they just slowly reclude to a rock and come back out 5 minutes later. Its actually crazy to watch these guys hunt for choco stars. Once I throw the stars in the tank (whole) its like they can smell them and come to go conquer their meal lol.
And the stars can sense them. I read that a guy had like 1000 asterinas and as soon as he put a harlequin in his tank, they all headed to the top of the glass. He said he had about 2-3" of starfish at the top of the tank. My asterinas also fled to the top of the glass but i have more like 100 so it was not near as dramatic.
I also worry about the cc getting to my corals before the harley gets to the starfish so I will have to be careful about that. I put the starfish right on a mat of blue cloves and I swear by the time the shrimp got him off the rock, a good amount of them were missing, which is fine, I hate those cloves almost as much as my aiptasias...
Where did you read that? I haven't seen that anywhere. Seems hard to believe since starfish are inverts and have no skeletons. Maybe they meant something else?
I also worry about the cc getting to my corals before the harley gets to the starfish so I will have to be careful about that. I put the starfish right on a mat of blue cloves and I swear by the time the shrimp got him off the rock, a good amount of them were missing, which is fine, I hate those cloves almost as much as my aiptasias...
Where did you read that? I haven't seen that anywhere. Seems hard to believe since starfish are inverts and have no skeletons. Maybe they meant something else?
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