Most entertaining reef safe invert?
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currentking
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sexys are nice but you got to feed them star fish
SptfireXIV
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Pom pom crabs are fun when they're out.
Go for a Pederson's cleaner shrimp and and some sexy shrimp. Can't go wrong with those
Go for a Pederson's cleaner shrimp and and some sexy shrimp. Can't go wrong with those
J. Montgomery
Mouth Pipetting
White Porcelain Anemone Crab. Sadly, mine died during his last molt 
burton14e7
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Wrong shrimp, harlequins eat star fish. Sexy shrimp just grace, mine chill ontop of my chalice and shake it like a lil babies mama should.
laszlo
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What about a pistol shrimp and goby? My pistol spends every day of his life building a sweet little mine shaft in a different spot every day, shoveling out sand, getting more work done than 5 county workers. Then he will take rocks and build a door or an archway outside his hole. Other times, if a suction cup or feeding clip falls off the glass, he'll go grab that and it will dissapear for a few days.
Very entertaining to watch him.
Very entertaining to watch him.
IndyReefMan
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Urchins are funny the way they decorate themselves with shells, small rocks, etc to try and hide. Yea... like we really can't see you.
Roy G. Biv
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lol.. Know what you mean. Mine likes to dress up in molts!!
Canarygirl
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that's pretty darned cute. Does he knock corals over at all, scratch the sides of your tank or otherwise make himself a nuisance?
ACBlinky
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Another urchin vote here - they may move slowly, but they're still lots of fun. I love checking the tank every morning to see what hats our pincushion Speedy is wearing that day - sometimes it's a single shell, sometimes he's covered in bits of rubble, but the best days are when he picks up nassarius, cerith or even Astraea snails, or hermits. Watching a hermit try to figure out what's happening is just too funny 
Speedy usually puts them down after a short time, probably doesn't like the feeling of his 'hat' struggling to get away.
My mother in law came over the other day, and couldn't believe her eyes. 'That thing is ALIVE? What do you mean it has little feet all over its body? How is it holding onto that shell? Can it see me?'
She ignored corals, the brightly coloured fish, a huge CBS, and just watched the urchin for about 15 minutes. How's that for entertaining?
Canarygirl - IME urchins aren't at all harmful, but you do need a glass tank (they can scratch acrylic) and frags that aren't epoxied down may end up being worn as hats.
Speedy usually puts them down after a short time, probably doesn't like the feeling of his 'hat' struggling to get away.My mother in law came over the other day, and couldn't believe her eyes. 'That thing is ALIVE? What do you mean it has little feet all over its body? How is it holding onto that shell? Can it see me?'
She ignored corals, the brightly coloured fish, a huge CBS, and just watched the urchin for about 15 minutes. How's that for entertaining?
Canarygirl - IME urchins aren't at all harmful, but you do need a glass tank (they can scratch acrylic) and frags that aren't epoxied down may end up being worn as hats.
Roy G. Biv
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Constantly bulldozing corals. I cant find any of my 10 zoa frags anymore. He must have deposited them in the back somewhere. My pencil urchin wedges itself between rocks and flexes to spread them apart to get at things.
stevenw56
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I really like cleaner shrimp but with my current tank I've had my Naso kill one and a Yellow Tang kill one in less than a month. Can't figure out why. They would line up to get cleaned but if the cleaner didn't want to right away the Naso and Yellow Tang would beat it to death.
This isn't very "nice" to watch, but I just had a flashback when someone mentioned the chocolate chip starfish!!! I kept noticing Xenia disappearing, and just figured "whatever" 'cause they would always reproduce, until I watched my little choc. starfish climb on top of the stalk and eat one!!! That was when I decided he had to go. Well, I wake up the next morning and the lil bastard is eating my purple-tip anemone!!! He went back to the LFS that morning!!! In short, I don't like them anymore.
One of my favorites is my sandsifting starfish. It's amazing how fast those things move. It almost looks like it's floating. Yesterday I saw it flying across the botom with one of the scarlet hermits tagging along for a ride. I do have a fire shrimp that has buddied up with my pink and blue shrimp goby. The only time I see it is at feeding time.
Sepeku
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Fighting Conch...
Something about seeing the guys bury themselves and make a hole in the sandbed so that their eye stalks come out like a little periscope. When things are good, out comes his trunk to eat whatever happens to be near the hole.
Quite possibly the laziest. snail. ever.
Of course, watching him go defensive in his shell with his knife/tail is funny too.
Same thing goes for Super Nassarius. I feed the tank and all these snails come hording out from the sand bed like the undead.
Something about seeing the guys bury themselves and make a hole in the sandbed so that their eye stalks come out like a little periscope. When things are good, out comes his trunk to eat whatever happens to be near the hole.
Quite possibly the laziest. snail. ever.
Of course, watching him go defensive in his shell with his knife/tail is funny too.
Same thing goes for Super Nassarius. I feed the tank and all these snails come hording out from the sand bed like the undead.
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