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Pom Pom Crabs + puffs

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Just wondering if anyone has tried keeping ppcrabs in the same tank as puffs?
I know, I know! (food :P)
But I've currently got 10-15 hermits and a fighting conch in the tank with them, and the gsp's seem to leave the hermits alone for the most part. (I made the hermits an underground tunnel/bunker system)
I'm SURE that will change once the puffers can basically fit them in their mouth, and it might with the pp crabs too, but I still have to ask :)

Thanks!
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Re: Pom Pom Crabs + puffs

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Kungpaoshizi wrote:Just wondering if anyone has tried keeping ppcrabs in the same tank as puffs?
I know, I know! (food :P)
But I've currently got 10-15 hermits and a fighting conch in the tank with them, and the gsp's seem to leave the hermits alone for the most part. (I made the hermits an underground tunnel/bunker system)
I'm SURE that will change once the puffers can basically fit them in their mouth, and it might with the pp crabs too, but I still have to ask :)

Thanks!
What kind of puffers do you have? I have a dog faced that leaves my baby hermit crab and nessarius snails alone. but that might change as it gets older
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might depend on the puffer, but for the most part if a puffer sees a crab, its food :)
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+1!
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PP, have you ever looked at your GSP and watch him for a few minutes and randomly he lets sand out of his mouth or gills? like he stores it in there and just lets it go when he wants? i constantly see my GSP just randomly let sand out of his gills after swimming around and looking at me for a minute. i think its on his hunt for my now small supply of nassarius snails that he picks up this sand
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GSP's...
I'm planning on a lot of the non-puffer stock to be food after time...
I actually noticed a huge improvement in their attitude after adding all the hermits, like the predatory instinct kicked in and helped them cope with their futile existence... lol
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jus85411 wrote:PP, have you ever looked at your GSP and watch him for a few minutes and randomly he lets sand out of his mouth or gills? like he stores it in there and just lets it go when he wants? i constantly see my GSP just randomly let sand out of his gills after swimming around and looking at me for a minute. i think its on his hunt for my now small supply of nassarius snails that he picks up this sand
I've never noticed this behavior.
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Shakespeare does this - he gets lots of sand in his mouth eating 'pods out of the sandbed, and then when he gets excited and breathes hard, the sand vents out his gill holes in a puff. He also farts sand every now and again.
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lol never noticed him fart any sand out but he definitely gets excited and some sand will spill out of his gills. i would be sitting there watching him, putting my finger in the water, i would be there for at least 5 mins and i would see him suddenly drop sand out of his gills. so he stores that stuff away lol
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