Spearer or smasher

[Jonny]

what is more common smasher and spearer??


and what one is better? can spearers take out crayfish? and other fish? also could a smasher take a fish from the water???

 

[Jonny]

anyone?

 

[PSEUDOREEFER]

Spearers tend to eat fish while smashers will eat crustaceans and snails.

 

[brekurboy1]

Usually, in live rock, they are smashers. I would say almost everyone that catches a mantis shrimp in live rock has caught a smasher.

So by all that I mean smashers are more common in the SW trade. I don;t know about in the wild. I'd imagine that spearers are more common in the wild since there is less competition for housing among spearers. But that's just an educated guess.