shrimps and crabs

[TanGo]

What other food does a Harlequin shrimp eats besides starfishes and Sea Urchins?

[TTBoy]

Wanted to get harlequin but too bad it only eats starfishes. Cant afford to keep buying starfishes to feed it.

[TanGo]

How often do I have to feed it with starfish? weekly? or two daily?

[Phang]

One starfish per week or every 2 weeks was the routine that I kept with my previous pair of Harlequin Shrimps.....

[coelacanth]

thanx bluebeard, i think i know how to go there oreadi.

[coelacanth]

went to Kwang's liao, super ooloo place... but i like the atmosphere. shielded from the business on the main road...

bot two porcelain crabs at 2.50 each...

their harlequin shrimp is so tiny, really cute looking. at $15 each... thinking of getting 3 more.

[Bluebeard]

wah he got porcelain crabs again!

i got 2 from Kwang's last time but they fight and they die!

will get more of them after i transfer my fishes to bigger tank!

[Phang]

their harlequin shrimp is so tiny, really cute looking. at $15 each... thinking of getting 3 more.

Hi Coelacanth,

I think you were a little late... cos there are 2 large ones when the srock first arrive....

BTW, Kwang brings Harlequins in regularly... you might be interested in waiting if big specimens are your choice....

[mv3i]

anyone can tell me where kwang is ???

[Phang]

Check this thread.... think Bluebeard provided a map there....

Nearest MRT would be Paya Lebar but you have to walk.....Alot!!!!

[coelacanth]

Hi Coelacanth,

I think you were a little late... cos there are 2 large ones when the srock first arrive....

BTW, Kwang brings Harlequins in regularly... you might be interested in waiting if big specimens are your choice....

Hi Phang,

i din miss the big ones, just that i got two of it myself... abt 2 inches each after several molts.

Reborn selling one large one at $50, some more short of one "petal".

check out my Dancing/clown/painted shrimp. (that's their common names)

http://arofanatics.com/members/coelacanth/...arlequinshrimp/

hi bluebeard,

my porcelains anemone crabs are doing very well together leh, just that it'll chase my anemone fish away.

cute animals, always "fanning" itself, maybe like that i dun need a chiller cos it'll cool itself? kekekeke...

[coelacanth]

Check this thread.... think Bluebeard provided a map there....

Nearest MRT would be Paya Lebar but you have to walk.....Alot!!!!

actually not alot if u know how. quite confusing at first. i enter from the malay village down there...

walk... i think u better print out the map.

[Bluebeard]

Hi Phang,

i din miss the big ones, just that i got two of it myself... abt 2 inches each after several molts.

Reborn selling one large one at $50, some more short of one "petal".

check out my Dancing/clown/painted shrimp. (that's their common names)

http://arofanatics.com/members/coelacanth/...arlequinshrimp/

hi bluebeard,

my porcelains anemone crabs are doing very well together leh, just that it'll chase my anemone fish away.

cute animals, always "fanning" itself, maybe like that i dun need a chiller cos it'll cool itself? kekekeke...

hahaahhaa.. ya lor.. their fanning very cute... always wonder what are they fanning since i cannot see them.

i manage to feed those i kept last time with some kind of hermit crab pellet.

maybe mine didn't fight each other, maybe they fight with the shrimps or the other kind of crabs.

[Bluebeard]

actually not alot if u know how. quite confusing at first. i enter from the malay village down there...

walk... i think u better print out the map.

actually walking from the malay village you won't get lost but it's a longer way.

the shortest way is,

Paya Lebar MRT

Katong Shopping Centre

Lion City Hotel

Haig Road Block 10 until you get to block 2

and down the small road and you are almost there!

i know the place inside out because i live them almost 20 years!

[Phang]

Hi Coelacanth,

How many Harlequins do you have????

[B|uEc@rpEt]

The fanning is actually to catch its food particles.

[coelacanth]

Hi Coelacanth,

How many Harlequins do you have????

hi phang,

i got 3 HS altogether, two female.

ya, the fanning of the PAC (Procelain Anemone Crab) is actually to catch food, i saw mine netting a big brine shrimp... so they are definitely not full time plankton feeder... only part time. haha...

PAC are helpful in clearing the slime of the anemone also.

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Hi coelacanth!

Nice to koe another Harlequin Shrimp fan!

Juz out of interest...how do u differentiate the females? I usually realize that the ones wif the blue legs (beneath its belly) is the female (larger than its partner too) n often carry eggs...

Is there another way of telling it?

[coelacanth]

hi B|uEc@rpEt,

unfortunately, thats the way i use to ###### them at the LFS too, the one with purplish pleopods are often the female... true indeed, eggs are seen after i introduced the "male" as supposed, as both of them stick together and hunt as a team... and chasing away the other female.

and also, though the female is the larger of the two, but in the LFS, u cannot tell the difference.

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Tks coel

Where do u house ya HS? In an invertebrate tank?

I love invertebrates too...and I house most of mine in my seahorse tank.

[coelacanth]

I kept mine in a crustacean tank, with a couple of fish and seahorse.

I do keep some inverts like Jellyfish, but they are not doing very well...

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Wow Jelly fish?

Have not seen them in quite a while...how long have u kept them? And how do u koe its not doing well? I've heard that its real diff to keep them...am i rite to say that they r the non-stingy type n hence wun harm ya horses?

[coelacanth]

hi B|uEc@rpEt,

i kept my Jellys for just 3 weeks. they are small so not possible to sting the horses, but i dun guarantee the baby horse. really tire me out to keep them, unless u have available sources for plankton, dun keep them. i'm left with the last one.

u can c that they are less active than previously bot, sometimes motionless. like dead. very discouraging.

[Achilles Tang]

I posted a thread about jellyfish some time back.

I strongly discourage the keeping of jellyfish as we are not able to provide:

1. The kind of specialised jellyfish tank that doesn't damage them ie. free of corners, and has a circulation system that doesn't suck them into the filter.

2. The food that they require ie. plankton and zooplankton.

Drop the demand and they'll stop supplying... let them be in the sea.

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Hi C...

Sorrie to hear about ya jelly fish thingy...they r quite hard to be kept alive in our tanks. But I can understand how come u decided to give it a go I have a fren wif a successful species tank of jelly fishes

And oh...were u the one who was looking for decorator crabs? Or was it someone else?