"both anemone covered fists into the face"Our Pom Pom got banished to my shelf Nano after mugging a Tailspot Blenny and melting his Cirri, caught him sauntering past the blennys’ home and stuffing both anemone covered fists into the face of the hiding Blenny. Got named Peeves after that!
Peeves occasionally will carry hundreds of eggs and I’m pretty sure she uses them to keep the anemones fed and in good health, usually happens after feeding her a few mussels over a couple of weeks.
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Above is the tank she’s in, the one on the left with a Sulphur Goby partnered with a very large pistol shrimp that’s doing a good job so far of chasing Peeves out the way when she sneaks up to potentially mug the Sulphur Goby.
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She’s somewhere in there, hopefully Mamma the pistol hasn’t sealed her up in one of the tubes!
Made me lol, they really don't hesitate to use them 😂
Why don't you?It’s oddball inverts like that that make me really want a small reef. Such charmers.
If it helps, my nano I got the tank and light from gumtree on the cheap, and I use the stock pump with heater.Space, investment, learning curve. In that order. 😅
I think saltwater can be daunting, but it only really gets difficult when you start keeping corals like SPS, everything else is pretty standard tbf.I’ll get there in the end… I’ve been thinking of what to do with my nanos when I eventually go up a tank size and using one as a sump and the other as a displays just ticks the right boxes as an excuse to take the plunge. All those Japanese reefs out there are lust worthy.
I did get a 2nd crab, but the poor guy never made it, not sure why.These little crabs are a fun breeding project and for something marine, are surprisingly easy tbh. The only problem is you end up with lots of crabs that don't have their pom poms but funnily enough they are very inventive and will use other things instead (I had one walking around with a nudibranch clamped in its claws, several with green star polyps or similar corals and they also seem to love aiptasia).
I have a bumblebee, but I'm paranoid about bioload and have also heard sexies can pick at corals, so it'll just be the one pom! LolI never had any problems mixing them provided there was enough hidey holes for them to get away from each other. The only real time you need to worry about conspecifics is when they are shedding but as they are happy on their own you can happily keep it on its lonesome.
Sexy shrimp are fun tankmates that won't cause any issues and i have a person love of bumblebee shrimp.
Here’s Peeves out for a wander, ‘Armed and Dangerous!’
Very easily, it’s likely the same mechanic that Clownfish use to be able to host Anemones, familiarisation! I watched my female clown start the process of hosting in the Anemone and it began with brushing past the tentacles, the clown was stung multiple times, she would go away for a while to let the venom subside then go back to brushing herself against the tentacles, this progressed for days until the female clown proceeded to suck the tentacles into her mouth and then spit them out, holding them in her mouth for longer and longer periods until she could host the anemone without fear of being eaten, she can sleep directly in the mouth of the anemone that is more than capable of swallowing her. This is familiarisation, the anemone treats the taste of the clown as itself and doesn’t trigger, this is evidenced by the fact that you will never see an Anemone consume its own tentacles, it is chemically sensing it’s immediate environment as it’s own tissue and the clown has become a part of that. The same will be said of the Pom Pom anemones they will see the crab as part of its own tissue and thus not harm its host, in both instances described a beneficial relationship has been formed.