Peacocks and Urchins

[gussy]

I have a peacock in 10 nano dx right now. There are a few snails that are with him for the past four months. All the hermits got killed but the snails seem to be okay.

If I put in a tux urchin in there, will it get killed or they leave urchins alone? I also have a small damsel in the tank.

 

[rwhhunt]

I had a pincushion survive with a 5 in peacock in a 26 gal for about two months...then it became dinner....but for $6 it wasnt a bad deal... go with the starfish and Large turbos if you need a addition to the clean up crew... My peacock has killed hermits, but generally leaves all the snails alone, except for a few margirita snails...

 

[gussy]

I have 3 urchins (tux, pencil, and pacific) on a 55g tank with fishes. Since the peacock is getting larger and seems to be okay with snails, I tought of moving him to the 55g tank.

 

[rwhhunt]

I really want to put my peacock in my 55! I think she could live with my antennata lion, clown, coral beauty, HOWEVER, my sharpnose puffer, and SFE would obviously pose poroblems...

 

[gussy]

I got a tiny figure 8 puffer...about 1.5" for a year now. I don't think he could do much to a 4" peacock. I have a small niger trigger and a small panther grouper in there too. I know that the panther will have to go sometime when it gets big. When I got the panther it was about 1" and in less than 6 months....4". In fact, it was half the size of my niger but the niger hasn't grown a bit.

I'm sure some of my numerous hermits would get murdered...but as I got tons of rocks I'm sure the peacock wouldn't get to all of them.