Sharpie129 Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Yeah, so I got one today too... it's so cool... So people were saying they've trained it to eat shrimp off a stick etc... what do people feed them? Brine... Mysis... something else? Quote Link to comment
CGNano Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Don't feed it unless you really want to. They do fine just eating detritus. Quote Link to comment
c est ma Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Sweet pics, Chocolate! Mine seems to really like taking up a position under an overhang of rock or coral, as in your first pics. Sharpie--Mine likes just about anything. I feed Cyclopeeze with a pipette, and he likes to have it squirted at him. He will also take other frozen foods, sinking pellets, etc. Quote Link to comment
S.I.C. Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Mine will grab some mysis and brine when I feed the fish. Quote Link to comment
chocolateblnt Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Yea they love to perch under stuff ... mine will actually wrap it's legs backwards on the overhang teeth and collect stuff with the 'nems Quote Link to comment
Sharpie129 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 If it uses its anemones to ward off a fish and it stings the fish... does it leave marks or splotches on the fish? Quote Link to comment
chocolateblnt Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Nothing you can notice ... usually fish don't bother stuff that will bother them back. My 6 Line Wrasse was swimming checking out the pom pom and it was fun to see the crab defending Quote Link to comment
CGNano Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 Yeah, your pom-pom is one of the nicest i've seen in a while. good luck with it. Quote Link to comment
lemiwinks Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 i love these crabs! they are sooo cool. i would like to get one. do you think it would be ok with this stuff? 12g nc 3 shrimp saddleback clown small lt anemone yellow polyps scooter blenny scarlet and tiny blue hermits turbo and nassarius snails feather duster Quote Link to comment
chocolateblnt Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) yes! They are ez to keep and peaceful. Make sure you have some iodine present in your system ... it's very important for quick and proper molting. They are most vulnerable when they molt as any invert. Edited January 5, 2007 by chocolateblnt Quote Link to comment
Argent Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 two of mine have already molted since I've introduced them to my tank! One hangs out under the powerhead (at the water inlet) funny to watch them upside down like that. Quote Link to comment
lemiwinks Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 where do their anemones come from?? Quote Link to comment
chocolateblnt Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Very good question ... all I know is that if they have one then they can actually use their pinchers to split it into two. Quote Link to comment
Sharpie129 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Pom poms split their anemones when they grow to big or... if another one of their friends is missing theirs, they share... So in other words, they get the anemones from another crab... Quote Link to comment
c est ma Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yes. As I understand it, this anemone is not found free-living. Nice case of co-evolution! One does wonder how the crab larvae find their first anemones when they settle... Very sketchy info: The anemone: http://www.edge-of-reef.com/anemoni/ESATriactisen.htm See juvie crabs with anemones: http://www.edge-of-reef.com/brachiuri/BRAL...essellataen.htm And, just for the heck of it, an interesting crab link I found in passing: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/liv...9&inhab=166 --Diane Quote Link to comment
CGNano Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 The anemones do grow away from the crabs. Quote Link to comment
UKNanoNoob Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Here is my pom pom stealing some brine shrimp from some closed sun polyp heads. Quote Link to comment
endolith Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Joy, I have joined the pom pom crab owner assosiation Quote Link to comment
CGNano Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 nice tubastrea and nice crab! and good luck with yours endolith! Quote Link to comment
aaronz Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I love mine. I never thought of getting more than one. But I just ordered two more. I have had my original one for almost a year and 3 months. He came from my 55g to my AP24. He still is shy and it is hard to find out from which cave he is peeking. I think he has the tank mapped out preaty well. Quote Link to comment
firstimereefer Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 (edited) I just got a pom pom last thursday, and I havent seen him since, its in a 12G JBJ with invert safe fish. Edited January 29, 2007 by firstimereefer Quote Link to comment
Izzue Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 ^^^ get a flashlight out and check around at night. They dont like fishees not matter what kind...so they tend to hide at day and out at night to feed. Pomees are endogenous to Hawaii...so Im sure thats where they get the anemone. But as some one posted earlier...not much info on the anemone. Izzue Quote Link to comment
sparticleveland Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I really want one of these guys. They are pretty much impossible to find locally, but I keep pestering my LittleLFS, since they get some cool oddball critters now and then in with their regular shipments. The LFSuperstore you can forget here; they get truckloads of ocellaris clowns and mandarin gobies (which they blithely sell without so much as a word about the 'pod diet they need -- thank G*d I didn't buy one when i was brand new!) -- but no pom-pom crabs. I wanna pom-pom! And since it's winter I'm really afraid to order them, even via overnight -- who knows what kind of system shock they might get in transit? Yikes. But that's a moot point 'cause I can't even find them anywhere! (Not to mention which I am spending enough to finance another family. ) Quote Link to comment
maaron Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 quick question, i have a pom pom crab but he lost both anemones, i recently took out the sabae anemone because it was harming other coral. The only thing left is a frogspawn. i assume i will need to add a anemone into teh tank so he can get some pom poms? Quote Link to comment
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