Reef lobster compatibility

[EI Gringo]

Quick question guys, anybody got experience of keeping a dwarf reef lobster with a pseudosquilla Ciliata? I think they should get on as I have a Ciliata currently chilling with large inverts (molluscs and peaceful crabs) and have no problems, always really wanted a reef lobster too but I'm obviously not going to risk it if it may attack my p.Ciliata which I love dearly, the p.Ciliata is approximately 3 inches in length and I'm sure is still growing, reef lobster would be introduced at around 3 inches also so ultimately will only be about an inch larger than the mantis.
All thoughts appreciated guys, cheers.

 

[Calappidae]

Reef lobster will definitly hurt the stomatopod.

I just recently lost one of mine to a chocolate chip starfish... if that can kill a mantis, I'm positive anything can.

 

[EI Gringo]

A chocolate chip starfish? No effing way :L I had a chocolate chip with my peacock, it slowly got eaten away by the peacock and that was that, took a brittlestar too :/ what mantis got eaten by a chocolate chip and are you sure?

 

[EI Gringo]

What about a squat lobster? Porcelainidae crabs? Other large peaceful crustaceans?

 

[Calappidae]

What about a squat lobster? Porcelainidae crabs? Other large peaceful crustaceans?

They're harmless, however P. ciliata I've seen occasionally take emerald crabs.

Pseudoaquillia has a little bit of a different dactyl, they're not like generitic spearers and iirc they are debatable of having a spike function instead of a true spearer.

A chocolate chip starfish? No effing way :L I had a chocolate chip with my peacock, it slowly got eaten away by the peacock and that was that, took a brittlestar too :/ what mantis got eaten by a chocolate chip and are you sure?

O. Scyllarus, and P. nodosus, When she didn't come out for food one night, and I saw a starfish entering the burrow, I immidiantly tore up the tank to find her on her last breath wrapped around by the starfish. Starfish are much more aggressive and brutal than many assume, I just thought it'd never happen to a stomatopod of all things. When my L. maculatas arrive within the next hour, they'll meet my harlequin shrimp.

(Speaking of which, if martini is lurking somewhere, ignore what I said about the CC stars as I recalled originally recommending them to you)

 

[EI Gringo]

I bought the chocolate chip and brittlestar on a whim, I didn't listen to anyone's advice so it may have been someone else you recommended that too, I've recommended choccies to people myself D: do you mean the chocolate chip starfish will meet the harlequin or the l.macs will? :L

 

[EI Gringo]

Plus emerald crabs are really actually sometimes aggressive and I wouldn't put them with a mantis PERSONALLY because I think there's a chance they'll bother them through a molt, a chance I won't take, emerald crabs are always fighting eachother at the lfs

 

[Calappidae]

do you mean the chocolate chip starfish will meet the harlequin or the l.macs will? :L

The starfish wouldn't even let him acclimate in peace,

EDIT: Wow that's huge... had I known the images would've been that big, I would've shortened them.

 

[Martini5788]

They're harmless, however P. ciliata I've seen occasionally take emerald crabs.



Pseudoaquillia has a little bit of a different dactyl, they're not like generitic spearers and iirc they are debatable of having a spike function instead of a true spearer.







O. Scyllarus, and P. nodosus, When she didn't come out for food one night, and I saw a starfish entering the burrow, I immidiantly tore up the tank to find her on her last breath wrapped around by the starfish. Starfish are much more aggressive and brutal than many assume, I just thought it'd never happen to a stomatopod of all things. When my L. maculatas arrive within the next hour, they'll meet my harlequin shrimp.



(Speaking of which, if martini is lurking somewhere, ignore what I said about the CC stars as I recalled originally recommending them to you)

I am always lurking muahahaha. Jk good to know, I will be sure not to get one. I'm sorry about your o. Scyllarus though. When did that happen? And I'm assuming that she wasn't sick of anything when that happened right?

 

[Calappidae]

This happened a few nights ago, she seemed fine prior to that event. I don't know if she was molting, because she never bothered to close up her entrances. I had two starfish, and one was blocking one side of the pipe, while the other was all the way inside coming from the other entrance. I noticed this a few minutes prior, heard some clicking, and few minutes after she never came out for food, I just pulled all the rock out and took the pipe out of the tank knowing something was wrong. I have the guilt over my head knowing I could've caught the starfish and stopped them in the act, but atleast there is reference so people are aware of their true capabilities.

 

[Martini5788]

I'm sorry[emoji20]. That really sucks. That's a hard lesson to learn, I wish that didn't happen. I appreciate you sharing that information with all of us though. The only starfish I have is a brittle star( the one that lost the legs a few weeks back) and it stays in he rock work completely and never goes anywhere near the tube. In fact, I have never seen it out of the rock work, even in the middle of the night. Make me nervous though. Should j remove it and put it in the main tank?

 

[Calappidae]

Nah, brittle should be fine.

Protoreaster species starfish are just in general predators that kill whatever they can catch. This was just a case of denial in me believing they would never catch and successfully kill an O. scyllarus. I was fully aware of how aggressive they can be, but I didn't expect to this level.

 

[ryanr1212]

i had a reef lobster once... it ended up costing me hundreds of dollars worth of eaten fish. once he was in, it was a ***** to get out. id take caution before getting one

 

[carmelpi]

We had a green brittle star who ate anything small enough to nab.

We solved the problem by only having big mean fish.

Sadly, the kraken died of old age during a move. He was at least a foot from end of tentacle to end of tentacle. Probably more.

 

[Calappidae]

We had a green brittle star who ate anything small enough to nab.

We solved the problem by only having big mean fish.

Sadly, the kraken died of old age during a move. He was at least a foot from end of tentacle to end of tentacle. Probably more.

That's species specific of the green brittles themselves. Any brittle that isn't green would be fine, greens particularly are predators. Most suppliers who sell them (bar lfs cause $$$) often point that out in their description.

 

[carmelpi]

I know. We didn't have a problem until we got a kole tang hitchhiker with some algae we picked up lol