Crabs and triggers

d_hartke · #1 09/20/2006, 11:12 AM

I would like to get some big crabs for my tank. What will work with my fish?

I like Triggers · #2 09/20/2006, 11:21 AM

ive put emeralds in with my triggers before and they try to eat them but arnt successful... i think my eels ate them though so i dont really know exactly what happened.

SW1TCH · #3 09/20/2006, 11:24 AM

Nothing is a garantee with triggers. But what i did is put large snails and crabs in the tank when the lights are off for the night. I also keep my triggers well feed this might be why they dont bother mine or the green serpent star i have in the tank.

hcahan · #4 09/20/2006, 12:56 PM

I had a sally crab and a bunch of hermits in my tank with a humu. The sally was never bothered but I would have to get new hermits every few months. Think of them as snacks.

Trigga Fish · #5 09/21/2006, 07:06 AM

The only hermits I've kept in my tank for any length of time is the big hermit crabs. Not the little wimpy snack versions. They were kept with a clown trig for years.

capt. insano · #6 09/21/2006, 07:45 AM

I have kept a large red starry hermit with my triggers ( a clown and black durgeon) for years. My 16" stars and stripes puffer will take a swipe at it every now and then, but can't get through its shell (surprisingly)

Monkeyfish · #7 09/21/2006, 10:03 AM

Large hermit crabs, cowries and possibly large turbo snails.

55gSW · #8 09/21/2006, 01:22 PM

I had a large hermit in with my little picasso. Not a starry hermit but comparable in size. Anyway, my little Bubba managed to kill him off. Then he started on the turbo snails so now that tank is strictly a fish only tank!!

d_hartke · #9 09/21/2006, 04:00 PM

I have some good ideas of where to start. Thanks for all the help fellas.