Star Trek Prime Directive

[Gman94]

If you see a fight between marine life - invertibrate or fish - Or, if you see a crab abusing a coral, do you break it up?

[Dz99ls]

crabs are just like the borg..... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!

[Cearbhaill]

First- do no harm.

Seeing as this is the Responsible Reefkeeping Forum, you'd think that you would have researched the species before combining them so you could avoid such dilemmas.

If you have done that and still have problems, I say separate them if you have the means- otherwise return or trade whichever you feel you can do without.

[spamin76]

Originally posted by Cearbhaill
First- do no harm.

Seeing as this is the Responsible Reefkeeping Forum, you'd think that you would have researched the species before combining them so you could avoid such dilemmas.

If you have done that and still have problems, I say separate them if you have the means- otherwise return or trade whichever you feel you can do without.

Sometimes research isn't enough - there is always the fluke where a reef safe animal just destroys something- I know people who have had tangs tear a brain coral apart and I have had a mithrax crab go nuts on some polyps before - in both cases it was a out of the blue fluke - never happened since.