Any Cool Inverts? And Starfish

[Pazzoman]

Hey Everyone,

I have a 150 gallon tank 48x24x30. As for stock I have:

-Green Bird Wrasse
-Yellow Tang
-Long Nose Hawkfish
-Marron Clown with Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
-Niger Trigger

-Some king of unknown big goby, looks very nice however just like to stay in the back of the tank...dont even notice it. I may trade him or sell him unless this is normal behavior since he has been in the tank for few days now.

^ All fish range from 3-5 inches
-Blue Face Angel in QT will be join the tank some time in december.

That will be pretty much the stock for this tank...maybe some chromes or some kind of small fish because the tank does look empty and all water parameters are doing great. However maybe wight he addition of the blue face, I will change my mind.

NOW FOR THE REAL QUESTION LOL :smile:

I would like to add some kind of interesting invert, I really like the blue spiny lobster, but i never had one b4 and have a felling I'm going to need one at at least a 4 inch size.

^Blue Spiny yes/no?

Cousin suggest a baby horse shoe crab, yes i have lots of sand space, but I feel it will eat snails/hermits and possibly ruin the sand....than again i really want something to shift the sand

^horse shoe crab yes/no will be obtain smallest available

What kinds of starfish can I possibly have? Something that is hardy

Urchins are interesting but do they scratch glass?

Cucumbers look interesting swell however I never owned one and feat they will be harm or eventually harm the tank.

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Mattl22]

I'd stay away from lobster but don't really know much about them I really like fighting counch sifts sand pretty good

 

[ReefWreak]

Lobsters are neat, but be prepared for it to disappear into the back of your tank or somewhere in the rock where you'll never see it.

The horseshoe crab I would pass on. They run around like crazy, but they'll eat any life in your sand, and then starve to death. You can feed it, but not sure if it's a great long-term resident, and it definitely will not serve any purpose in your tank other than to have something skittering around the sand all day.

Urchins are cool, and they don't scratch glass (although some people have reported they scratch acrylic, but I'm not 100% sure)

The only starfish you could have would be a Linckia (they come in beautiful blue, orange, and red colors), or a brittle star (brown only, NOT the green, it WILL eat your fishes over time). Starfish are very sensitive to changes in tank conditions, so you'd have to keep that in mind.

Cucumbers are good for cleaning up sand, though some of them are toxic if they die, so it's worth researching which one is the right one. Otherwise they're friendly tankmates.

If you feel your tank isn't particularly exciting, I always love seeing a school of chromis swimming the length of the water column across the top 4-6 of them would be neat. I used to have 4 in my 120 and they were always enjoyable. They are jumpers though, so keep that in mind (I lost 2 to jumping).

The nice thing about the Niger trigger is that he's a planktivore, so he shouldn't bother any of your inverts, including if you got a cucumber or urchin.

I had a conch for a long time in my 120, and it did well. A single fighting conch will be interesting and stay at a moderate size. He'll go around eating algae off the glass and bottoms of the rocks.

 

[vashawn]

your wrasse might go after the inverts such as snail, hermits crabs, etc