Aw man Im in the midwest right now and everyone is talking about the power going out... crap.
Sorry to hear about your loss!

how many sexies would be appropriate for a 29 biocube?
Also, do they get along with pistol shrimp?

From my understanding they dont need a whole ton of room so you could fit quite a few in a 29 cube. Ive had 3 in mine for a year.
The pistol should leave them alone. I would think anyways but someone else that knows for sure might chime in.

My mated pair of Red Banded Pitol Shrimps doesn't harm my Sexy Shrimp even though the goby/shrimps burrow and the Sexie's mushroom rock are right next to each other.

Red Banded Pitol's don't get big and are less aggressive. Tiger Pistol's are the opposite I believe. SO I would never trust a TIger Pistol Shrimp with anything!

I hope this helps!

just got a yellow striped cling fish

some sort of goby,I was told. He moves around really cool,and has not bothered the sexies

found out they like to eat the small mussels that hitchhike in on rocks,I have seen him do this

he seems to like cyclops too

LFS did not really have any info on these guys,and my research did not turn up a whole lot

anyone had one, have any info?I'll get pics soon

also got a emerald crab,and a flame scallop


xmass yeilded gift certificates to the lfs,so more additions will be here soon

Clingfish host urchins and are very hard to keep alive. Jackywongto has one.

You feed your shrimp shrimp? Um..

so do you think it would be possible to keep a sexy with a cleaner shrimp, bicolor blenny, and a clown?

Yes.

I joined the club today! They are adorable!

Sexy stealing shrimp from a disco - just last week I accidentally broke off a Stomatella tail and he ate that also...

Aren't they great?
Update on my trio in the 40br tank: They're doing great! Most of their time is spent on the rock with the mini nems, but I catch them all over tank at different times. They haven't bothered any corals and I haven't spot fed them in ages. Seems they are quite capable of catching drifting flake food when I feed the fish.
One that I thought was a male has actually matured into a female.. so it's one male with two ladies.. bow chika!

how would these guys do in fowlr 4g

(if any) fish would be a clown goby

I wish mine would stay away from my SPS and focus on hosting my mini nems

I actually havnt fed mine in like 8 months and they havnt touched my corals once other then hosting. They hangout on the top of my rocks when I feed the clowns and wait for food to drift by
I my sexies!

I just bought 2 sexies from my LFS and dumped them in the tank. I left to a party for a few hours and when I got back, I found 1 of them being eaten by 1 of the hermit crabs! I am soooooo pissed!

I miss my sexies.

I miss mine too. What's the life expectancy on them? Has anyone ordered them in cold weather like this? I can never find them locally.

Mine have been going strong for well over a year now.. Dont know the life expectancy on them tho.
I have noticed none of the local LFS have been carrying them lately. Use to be able to find them easy.

does anyone have experience with purchasing sexies online? Im looking into getting 5 for my tank now that i moved the angler to a new home. Ive seen one site periodically have them on sale for 7.99 each.


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They are generally good shippers. Mine came from LiveAquaria.

I got 3 from vividaquariums. They came with a huge ball of chaeto too.

Only one survivied because the other 2 didn't want to do well after acclimating

Will it host a Leather tree, long Tenacl anemone, on Flower pot anemone,

I have frozen krill. They kind of resemble a pellet. I'm about to get 5-10 of these little guys for my Biocube 8, would that mean I have to spot feed 10 a day? Or every other day? I think it'd be really exciting to become a real part of my tank doing spot feedings. Just one thing, my clown is really aggressive and if I want to do any work in my tank, I have to net him to keep him from biting my arm. I have scars going my arm from him. He doesn't attack anything but epoxy, hahaha, yes, he hates epoxy and will chew it away. Will this be a problem?

Please PM me with information!

Acclimating my first sexy right now!!!!!!!!!!

Finally got my sexy!

Hey can sexys live in FOWLR? I'm planning on doing a shrimp only tank, just need to know if they do better in reef tank or any Marine tank?

My sexies ate my zoas with once a day spot feeding. Unfortunately.

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Sure, sexies would do fine without corals present.
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Here's my little pains-in-the-butt





Just acting casual around the acros...till I turn my back

thankS

What does it mean when the briefly wiggle violently?

They're about to go on a rampage.

If it's a female carrying eggs, she's making sure the eggs received proper amounts of oxygen, I believe.

Hey , need some help I thought my salt I was mix for my waterchange was dissolve , and some fall on my live rock . I 'm scared that it's going to kill anything it touch. Please help

I really want if thses will harm my ANIMALS, oh i DON'T HAVE CORAL, JUST A FISH AND SOME SHRIMP

Got my first sexies today. Another member had 3 that were being picked on by a fish and needed to relocate so they're now in my 10 gallon. Hadn't seen them before in real life (local LFS's haven't seen them in a while) but they are definitely amusing to watch. Plus, with how small they are it adds a bit of a 'Where's Waldo?' game to the tank everything you look at it. Now I just need to teach them some choreography to their sexy dance! :-)

So just how well will these guys get along with larger hermits? I searched the thread and it sounds like they can coexist OK, but I'm not sure if that means smaller hermits. I've got a couple largish blue leg hermits that the family won't let me trade out.

Can they just get along?

Thanks

The seem to ignore each other completely, ime, even the larger hermits.

I was watching this tightly with the new ones last night. At one point I had put an algae wafer in the tank which brings all the hermits running. One of the new sexies happened to be in the way of one of my larger hermits. The hermit was just trying to make its way to the food but the sexy seemed to take it as a threat and moved pretty dang quick out of the way. The hermits seem to be so slow compared to the sexy that I imagine if it was a problem they'd still have a tough time getting themselves caught (short of all the hermits putting together a game plan to corner them).

Cool. I think I'm about the get sexy!

Don't know if anyone else has come across something like this. About 10 months ago I bought 2 sexies. They did great in my 3g pico together. Well, eventually I ended up transferring all my pico stuff to my 20g and less than a month later 1 sexy disappeared. So strange because they hung around each other constantly. The lonely sexy found a home and chilled in the same spot ever since. The thing that scared me is I knew that spot had a gorilla crab living very close by. This was about 6 months ago. I've been trying to catch the crab but I've noticed the crab and sexy shrimp have paired up. The shrimp lets him know if there's danger nearby as well as brings food to him, making it even harder to catch the crab. I one day went on a rampage to get the crab out, failed, causing me to redo my aquascape which also caused the crab to change homes. The shrimp went with it! Different area of the tank and they still hang around together like buddies. Still makes me nervous but at least they seem to work together.

Now that's cute.

I'm in love with my little sexy. Picked him up on 2/15.
He was the only one left the LFS had out of five. Well, I couldn't just leave him there all by himself!
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Absolutely adorable!

Hey all. I got a little trio of 3 from my LFS last week and they are currently in my 3g picotope. I'm having a very hard time actually feeding them and I was wondering if someone here could help me. I've tried using tweezers and putting Shrimp Pellets near them, every once in a while one will take one, but it's not frequent, and never have I been able to get all 3 to take one. If I simply drop the pellet near the xenia they host, 95% of the time they ignore it completely. I also tried giving them a tetramini bottom feeder tablet but after pecking at it briefly they too ignored that. It's obvious they have been surviving simply by picking at my xenia because it's starting to show visable signs of the feasting.

What's a good way for me to stop them from picking at my corals and encourage them to eat the food I give them? Should I perhaps try pellets?

Don't know about the xenia (other than sometimes walking on it I haven't seen them eat mine) but they'll also feed on algae. Maybe they're not hungry or just haven't gotten used to the idea that the pellets are food yet? Mine will eat the algae and coepods from the tank. Some people just feed them the same stuff the fish eat. It may take some time and probably nothing to worry about as long as they appear to be getting their food elsewhere. Of course, that's a problem if the xenia is where they're getting their food.

Got a few last week. Very cool. They are really ####### off my zoas as they sit on them and pick at them relentlessly. They don't seem to be hurting them, just picking at the slime or whatever they go after. Makes it easy to find them though as you can just look for the zoa rock with all the closed polyps.

The family is referring to them as "Waldo's" because of always trying to find them. My son swears that they teleport because of how they move so quickly and pop from one location to another.

Fun so far.

Loved my sexy shimp for years, now out of no where they are eating my zoanthids, it's war, and yes they get plenty to eat. Just started as a new behavior, never believed others when they posted that sexy shrimp were eating different types of corals, I am a believer now. How the hell do I get them out and banish them to a smaller tank with no corals.

Finnaly got a sexy for the wife and the rock nem. Sucker went right to theg nem. Nem tried to eat him at first then settled down. Now the shrimp is all over him.

Man how I want sexy shrimp.