can i keep sea apple and hermit crab?

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my brother caught a big hermit crab from the sea shore yesterday. i intended to keep it in my tank but i am worrying that it will harm my sea apple or even my fish??

anyone have any idea about keeping them together ?

TIA.
 
hi thanks for the reply. also i've read couple of threads about sea apple are poisonous... i was thinking if i should return it to the LFS. should i? i don wan it to kill my fishes...

darn i should have read more before buying. :shake:

i am even more frightened as i read this:
http://saltaquarium.about.com/blcucumberfam_cucumariidae.htm
 
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Many hermit crabs collected from the shoreline will require land to get out of the water on. If you can't provide this, it shouldn't have been added to the tank. Since it has, see if your LFS will take it--animals put into an aquarium should never be released into the wild, as they may introduce diseases.

On the sea apple--they can poison the tank. What do you have in with it, and are you target feeding?
 
i tried to return the sea apple but they dont accept it so i have to keep it. and the thing i was pissed is that they are giving me faces :mad:

currently i have 2 clown (nemo), 1 blenny, 1 domino, 1 velvet and 1 blue damsel, and a "doctor" fish besides the sea apple.

think i am letting go that HUGE hermit. it looked unsafe too as i afraid it may eat my fish when run out of food on sand bed :P

and nope i am not target feeding (btw which one i should target feed ? and how do i do that?) i am new to this as you can see i kept clown and damsels only coz i read that they are die-hard :P

and thanks for all the advices :D
 
Most sea apples are filter feeders. Get some invert food, and target it with a baster when it's feeding tentacles are out. Very few places will accept inverts back--it's a risk for them, since they don't know what's in your tank. The fish are unlikely to pick on the apple, but watch the hermits. They shouldn't intentionally mess with it, but might annoy it by walking on it or pinching a tentacle.

And, you really might want to do research before buying/acquiring anything else. It's much easier to prevent problems than to resolve them. Even with hardy fish, you're likely going to have problems simply because damsels are very territorial and will beat the heck out of each other. Clowns are in the damsel family, and while they don't pick as large an area to defend, are just as nasty about defending it.
 
:eek: you are quick in replying (many thanks!)

yep i've learned it and shall study before spend in future. now i am stuck with them so i'll learn to take care of them.

my fish are so far so good, the domino will chase the blue damsel around, but the velvet is very kind so far. maybe they are still juvenile. Strange thing is the 2 clown doesn't mind sharing their sleeping place with the domino ;)
 
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