My new Pom Pom. They are really awesome little animals.

Does anybody know the exact difference between a red sea, and a central pacific pom pom crab?

I can't recall if I've added my pic or not.
Oh well, here she is.

Here is my recent addition... Man, these guys are beautiful, but hard to get a good picture of!!!

Of course, they love shaddows. Maybe if you feed the tank with lots of fine particled food, they will come out better for you. They do for me, especially under blue lights.

Thanks... Of course now that I said they are hard to get a picture of, I haven't seen him!!! Seriously, I can't find him!!! My rockwork is NOT that complicated, but I haven't seen him for almost a week. Should I be worried?

No, you should not be worried, I'm sure he's still around. The are extremely hardy...mine survived my son squirting lotion into my pico! He's probably just found a place on the back of the rocks to hang for food.

I picked up my second pom pom today! My original (female I believe) has only ever had a nub for a pom pom, and only one at that. It's never looked better or worse and I've had her for nearly a year. Went to the LFS today and saw one with two full, beautiful little nems and snatched it right up. He's finally done with acclimation and was just added to the tank. Hopefully he'll 'share' as I've heard they do

Thanks for the quick reply! I just always worry when I can't find someone in my tank! I know... damn noob!!!
Congrats on the second one! I plan on adding a second one at some point!
Let's see some pics of it!!!

I just saw mine for the first time in over a month last night. Its a surprise now everytime I see him. He did not have any pom poms though.

Do you think he will be able to still get food?

It'll be a while before it settles in enough for me to get a pic. This is the crab I've had for a while. The best pic I've ever gotten of her (crappy camera + crab that hates faces = terrible pictures lol).





He'll be fine. Mine loves to run out and snatch pellets when the opportunity arises.

Here's my little buddy.

My pom pom just lost his pom pom's. Is this a problem or will it be ok?

Saw my two pom pom crabs fighting with each other today, they were flipping each other over.

I saw my pom pom today. He is missing both his pom poms. He came out of the rock when I fed mysis so I decided to give him a piece of crab bites with the tweezers and he jumped on the tweezers and grabbed the food like he was starving. Hes still munching on the crab bite but he will be one happy crab.

This is my first feeding. Hopefully I can get better pics when I get a new camara.

Update...
I found him after all... I was a little worried! Of course, he was right in the FRONT of the tank, just blends in well I guess!!!

He has been in the tank about two weeks now, and already molted once, and he got his second pom pom!!!



Now he just needs a companion!!

Just found this thread and figured I'd post a few pics of mine:







Pom-poms are, by far, my favorite crabs...

Does anybody know if an emerald crab, or a porcelin crab will get along with the pom-pom crabs? I would like to pickup a pair of pom poms, but I already have an emerald and porcelin in my 29g. I would be willing to get rid of the emerald crab!

I have a pair of emeralds in my tank with my pom-pom and they don't bother each other. The pom-pom hides during the day and the emeralds have their own little spots. Everything seems happy for now...

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Here is one of mine, I picked up two last night. They are just soooo small I figured I might loose one somewhere... Their bodies are no bigger than a dime, super small! Hes also only got 1 anenome, so hopefully it will split.

Very nice!
I bought mine with only one nem as well... But he had two in about two weeks!
I need to pick up a second one soon!

So i came home to a very sad scene. My pom pom crab, being eaten by a nassarius snail. And i double checked, it was the real crab, not a molt. The acutal crab was half eaten, and left on the sandbed, and the snail just went on its merry way. The molt is sitting on the back of the tank, with BOTH nems still on it. I cant imagine the crab was actaully eaten alive, but that the crab had alredy died. Anyone have any ideas?

I just got two pom-pom's today and I am really excited, these are so cool. Here are some pics of the new additions, Willie and Marge:

Willie has white nems and Marge has red nems.


Here is Marge, who ran for the shadows once introduced into the tank.


Here is Willie, who doesn't seem to be shy at all.


Another shot of Willie waving his "poms" around.

i bet the crab died and the nass' were cleaning up. i don't think they eat live stuff.

Eat your heart out boys...Im in Hawaii where the boys hang out in Hilo...

Izzue

I just got 2 pom poms about a week ago and they're really amusing to watch. Both come out at dinner time and wave their little pom poms around, they look like they're trying to be tough guys Each one has 2 anenome's, hopefully they'll keep them

Thanks to this thread for introducing me to these great creatures!

I just got a pom pom crab Thursday. I can't seem to find a straight up answer on what to feed them. What seems to work the best for all of you?

I feed my tank very sparingly, but these guys know exactly where/when the clowns miss a morsel of formula1/2. It's funny when it's in the open sand bed cause the flow is too much for them to leave the rocks.

Is that a pellet or frozen.

Mine ate pellet and frozen

how often do pom pom crabs molt?

What kind of frozen? Mysis? Cyclops?

I would feed with Mysis one day and pellet the next. It didnt seemed like he had an issue with either, im sure the Cylops would be fine too.

I threw a small piece of shrimp pellet near him and he grabbed it. So that's good news!

I fed my tank cyclops tonight and the pom pom crab seemed to LOVE it. He came almost to the front and was waving his "pom poms" around catching them. AWESOME INVERT!!!!

Trying to find an online retailer that ships to Canada?...anyone know of one which could have the Pom's?

J&L Aquatics or Ocean Aquatics in BC usually have them

J

this thread was too huge, I read the first page and the last page. Just out of curiosity, would pom-poms get along with sexy shimp?

My pom pom made an appearance two nights ago, the first I've seen of him in about 3 months. I'm not sure if it was a coincidence but he was getting blown around on the sand and caught himself on a nassarius snail, which served as an anchor and dinner. Anyone else experienced the same thing? I read a thread recently about a pom pom serving a cleaner shrimp.

I used to enjoy my pom pom and love when he would come out and eat... now he turned into a little terrorist. He killed my shrimp, i saw it. he grabbed him and ate him alive. He also flipped my astrea snail over and ate it too. Saw that whole thing also. I dont know what to do with him cuz i want more inverts but he destroys them. He gets in fights with my emerald crab also but the emerald crab can sort of defend himslef with his claws. Mine is a male and is very aggresive. He attacks my hand if i get near his cave. And he eats everything from pellets to frozen to flakes and unfortunately live inverts...

LoL sounds cool. Id like to see him fight.

Its cool in the sense that its interesting but he had a $20 dollar lunch.

i have 2 Pom Poms, 3 sexy shrimp, 4 blue-leg hermits and 2 red-leg hermits they all get along pretty good with the exception of 1 large blue-leg hermit that thinks all the shells in the tank belong to him. one of my Pom Poms is carrying eggs for the second time

haha lets pit our pom poms off against eachother.
yea i actually see mine try and stalk my pistol from time to time, but i think the pistols cave got buried and the YWG is now in QT so he has been MIA. my pom pom always seems to be plotting evil so i try and keep an eye on him when i can.

Ya, they can be very evil creatures...but very interesting. Mine even tries to get the six line but he is way too fast to get caught.LOL

see i just dont know about them being able to waste most fish though. my pom pom was totally on a mission to get my pistol, but that means the POM POM would have to get thru my YWG first.
well i saw the POM launch an attack and totally hit my YW several times with the nems and after one flinch it didnt even phase my goby. the pom pom was even rubbin that thing in the gobies eye and he just kinda flicked him off like it was no thang.
i thought for sure there would be death everywhere, but to my surprise (thank GOD) everyone was okay.
just my $.2

Hey all, i have a pom pom who is in recovery. I got him in isolation so he can hopefully get his missing legs back. (he had a bad encounter w/ a very bad blenny). I have a rock anemone in there with him. Does anyone know how the rock anemone could affect the pom pom?

Hello to everybody.
I hope i can come to you.
I am Mona from Germany, Hamburg.
I have a 3 gallon Nano tank.
2 sweet Pom pom crabs live in it!
I bought a few month ago 2 crabs and one was fade away after one week.
One week ago i bought a new one.
I didn´t know if it is an male or female...or what, but 2 days after i set im in my tank, the new crab had an big pack of eggs

Now i want to raise them, and hope it will be good.
No other animals live in it, and so no one can eat the larves.

Is here anybody, that even try to raise these funny crabs?
I want to know, how long it takes until the larves come out?
My crab has the eggs about 6 days.

I hope my English isn´t so horrible and you understand what i want to say..
Thank you..

Much Greetings from germany

I was wondering if the pom pom crab would be compatible with a longnose hawkfish. I read that the hawk might eat small inverts so I'm guessing its a no but I am wondering on your opinions.

Got one of these bad boys and only seen him once since being added. I can't wait till I see him again cause he was so neat looking

I plan to get a pair and put them in my 9 gallon.
They bother sexy shrimp you think?

Wow cool! Didn't noe that there's a Pom Pom thread.

Adding mine to share from my tank thread.

My Pom Pom crab pics Imo, I not so sure if I gotta feed them, but I never feed mine. Cos I dun even had a chance. Only sees mine once every few months. Maybe it's feeding but I never notice. And yes I hopes mine live a long life










My Dancing Pom Pom Video