what kind of anemone do u have?? what else is in your tank. how often do u feed your anemone?

 

its a rock flower anemone. E. Crucifier. I have 4 in my tank, they love it and are doing well. Been in there three months ish. 29 gallon tank. Which I already know its overkill, but I just wish I could keep a cleanup crew. They just get eaten. I was feeding every other day. But I havent fed them in probably two weeks or so. Let me re phrase that...I personally have not fed them in two weeks, they have eaten hermits every 3-4 days. lol.

 

lol that sucks but you should feed them once or twice a week so there well fed. I think thats your problem but im not sure. I have 3 anemones in my tank but never had them eat my clean up crew lol.

 

Crabs and shrimp are part of the natural diet of anemones. Keeping them well fed will do nothing to help. If a crab stumbles onto the nem, it's probably going to get eaten

 

idk if thats all true cause my peppermint plays around with my LTA without getting eatin and my hermints don't seem affected when the anemone touches them.

 

I can assure you that it is true. In the wild, a majority of an anemones diet includes crabs, shrimp and snails that stumble onto it.

Fish would be an infrequent prey item in the wild as fish are smart enough to stay away from anemones. In aquariums where there is less room to manuever and fish are prone to being spooked, the chances of an anemone catching a fish are much better but it still doesn't happen often.

 

Well, it seems as though the snails are smart enough to know better. But the hermits.....they just walk right in to the nem. Just watched one walk into it, get eaten, and the shell was spit out about 10 minutes later. I guess Im just going to have a crabless clean up crew. lol

 

wow 0.0 that would be something to see.

 

I wish I had the money for a video camera. I would record it. It happens at night mostly. As soon as the halides are off, and the moonlights are on. The nems double in size and the hermits look at it like a bug lamp. They just cant resist.

 

thats really scary lol but i guess your best bet is no more crabs lol

 

Jason, what would you put in there as a cleanup crew? My tonga fighting conch is doing great....emerald crab is smart enough.......few nassarious.....and a few other snails. What else? Or is that good? I do have a little bit of a bigger hermit that knows not to go near them.

 

I'm not a huge hermit crab fan so I try and get every different snail that I can find. I do have just a few of the larger hermits. My favorite cleaner is the tiger tail cucumber, they are like sandbed vacuums.

I don't go overboard on the cleanup crew and just add a few occasionally as needed.

 

Thank you sir.