compatability question

[kjjoseph74]

Hello and thank you for your help!

I have a 75 gallon saltwater tank with 3 false perculas, 1 yellow tang, one blue tang, one chocolate chip star fish and about 45 lbs of live rock (as well as a filter and skimmer). I am planning on adding many invertebrates, but before doing so, wanted to see if these were all compatable with each other (would not eat or disturb each other).

My list includes:

1 chocolate chip star (already have)
10 bumble bee snails
2 scarlet reef hermits
1 emerald crab
2 red leg hermit
2 blue leg hermit
2 cleaner shrimp
1 coral banded shrimp
1 blue spiny lobster
1 long spined urchin
1 cleaner wrasse

Will the cleaner wrasse attach the starfish and shrimp?
Will the urchin topple my live rock?
Will the crab or lobster eat my other livestock?

Thank you greatly for your assistance in advance.

KJ

 

[bayondai]

Most cleaner wrasse starve to death because they usually don't eat prepared food. The emerald crab will be fine. I don't know about the urchin or lobster. If you are planning on adding corals I would get rid of your chocolate chip star because they eat them.

 

[NaCl-H2O]

If your tank is a FO or FOWLR you should be fine with most of it. If this is a reef tank, Urchins and Lobsters are not usually recommended, but some people get away with having them with no problems. Urchines WILL eat your coraline if you have LR. The shrimp may fight, but are usually OK to keep together in a tank that larg. The cleaner may or may not convert to prepared food and may not make it. If you still want one start by hatching some baby brine and feed alive and see if he will eat them. Then convert him to larg live brine and then to frozen. I have had good success with this method, but nothing is 100% and he may never eat anything but brine only some can be converted to other foods. GL, HTH

 

[Anonymous]

My list includes:

1 chocolate chip star (already have)

Will eat snails, corals, crabs, etc. (basically anything it can catch)

10 bumble bee snails
2 scarlet reef hermits
1 emerald crab
2 red leg hermit
2 blue leg hermit
2 cleaner shrimp
1 coral banded shrimp

CBS will most likely get aggressive as it gets older (and bigger). In a 75 you probably won't have *too* much problems, but it might go after your other shrimp.

1 blue spiny lobster
1 long spined urchin

Probably won't bother the rock too much, but will definitely clean up most of your corraline algae.

1 cleaner wrasse

As previously stated, cleaner wrasses don't do well unless they're in a very large tank with a good number of large fish. Unless, that is, you get extremely lucky and get one that will adapt to prepared foods. Even then, it's a long-shot. Last cleaner wrasse I had was several years ago; he was in a 125 with a large guinea fowl puffer, a small california ray, and a baby nurse shark that I was just babysitting for awhile. He picked at the fish constantly and took to prepared foods. He still only lasted a couple months. :?




-John

 

[eddi]

Hi,

I have a few of the invertebrates you listed and I have had very few problems. I have a mated pair of coral banded shrimps, a mated pair of gold banded shrimps, two cleaners, a spiny lobster, various snails and hermits and a tuxedo urchin and the only problem I have noticed is the lobster eating a couple of snails. However I don't know if he/she killed them or was just taking advantage of an easy meal after they had died. I have also been unable to keep any serpent or brittle stars but I think the real culprit is my large spanish lobster.

I have a 360 g tank so they have lots of room. I also agree with everyone else, do not get the chocolate chip star. Any star fish with knobs on their body is aggreesive, but the chocolate chip is more so.


Eddi