harlequin shrimps

[Kigs!]

has anyone seen one or a pair on sale?

 

[jessiesgrrl]

There was one pretty cheap on saltwaterfish.com not too long ago. If you can't find them anywhere else, you ca sign up to be notified by email when they get them back in I believe...

Good Luck!

:D
Laurie

 

[Kigs!]

that's the first place i checked after liveaquaria.com... i guess these guys go pretty fast lol i added myself onto the wishlist, but not counting too much on those guys. if i can't find them online in a week or two, i guess i'll have to put in an order through local lfs

 

[Kigs!]

i had them when i first started out a nano tank, and they sure are awesome shrimps... kinda freaky when you watch the process of them hunting down starfish, but neverthless...very awesome :)

if one of the sponsors could get it for me, i'll put in an order with few other things as well. i'm sure i could use more zoas in my tank along with these inverts...:lol:

 

[Pufferpunk]

Don't they only eat starfish?

 

[chadfarmer]

are they hard to get the local pet store alwasy have them once a month

 

[Kigs!]

no, i don't think they are hard to get, but they only come in every once in awhile in small stocks. i'm sure i could get my hands on'em if i wait a few more weeks local. this could also be a good excuse for me to order some more corals online along with the shrimps...:lol:

coralnutz, do they paralyze them? I remember them stabbing the starfish with these very sharp spears, and starfish wasn't able to move while being eaten. they would move their tube feet, but couldn't really run away anymore.

 

[Pufferpunk]

You're really gonna feed them starfish?

 

[Kigs!]

i don't know what else to feed'em if that's all they eat...
besides my tank isn't big enough to hold a population of asterina stars...so yes, i'll probably have to stock a few choc. chip starfish and rotate, cutting off a leg or two every few weeks.

 

[surfn]

if a vendor is willing to get some in, i want one also, i have a huge population of these evil white asterina stars with a block dot in the center i think are munchnig on my palys. they gota go.

 

[Kigs!]

is there a way to ID the zoa eating asterinas from the algae eating ones?

 

[surfn]

is there a way to ID the zoa eating asterinas from the algae eating ones?

thats a great question, i'd like to know that also. but there seems to be so many species its impossible to identify the ones that eat zoas.

although, every instance in which a person says they think asterinas are eating zoas, it always seems to be the small white ones.

my small white ones have a black dot in the center if that means anything.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I started trying to pick them all out, when I heard they ate zoas. Never could keep up with that population... Then I noticed I never saw one on a zoa colony or eating any. I left them alone.

 

[Kigs!]

Has anyone dealt with these guys?
http://reefhotspot.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=1081
$17.50 is really cheap for a harlequin compared to the prices I've been seeing in LFS around me.

 

[Kigs!]

Oh...also not sure how accurate this might be, but found few articles on different asterina starfish

http://www.garf.org/STAR/starfish.html
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2003/gallery.htm

 

[CherryCorals]

They are great for keeping the little Asterina starfish in check. My Harlequin eats em like potato chips.

Its a bad pic and I didn't get all the action in the frame but he has a total of three starfish in his clutches.

I have had him for three months and I have not run out of starfish.

 

[Kigs!]

Stoneyscoral, how big is your tank?

btw - I was asking about vendor experience, not critter experience :lol:

edit - great picture btw!

 

[CherryCorals]

I posted mostly in response to Pufferpunk to demonstrate that you don't have to physically feed them if you have enough of the little starfish.

I got my harlequin locally, they don't show up very often. I had to request it.

I have two tanks linked together, the shrimp is in the frag tank w/ my zoa's.

Sorry for jumping in on your thread.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, I have tons of those lile stars but also really love my 4 linkias. Those shrimp are awsome though.