Oh okay! I didn’t know if the zoa had a specific name, haha. Also I was thinking the other one was a green star polyp but they’re sooo tiny and every picture I’ve seen have like super long “tentacles”.
The more flow the the longer the tentacles to a point too much and they don't open.
Good to know! Right now the flow is keeping them flowing but not pinning them sideways or anything, haha. Is also normal for blue legged hermits to crawl over the green star and zoa? I haven’t seen them pluck any polyps but I was wondering if the coral are too fragile to be trampled on. I have about 8 hermits in my 13.5g.
I’m not surprised by this. They seem to do whatever they want. I’ve watched a line of 5 hermits crawl up the corner of my tank holding onto the black caulking in the corners then cliff dive from the top.
Okay good. I’ve seen them close up several times, just kinda worried about having soft coral and potentially adding more coral with 8 hermits flying around the tank.
Never experienced or heard of them really hurting softies. However i wont keep hermits because some will rip open mouths of LPS corals to get to food. Mine started doing that years ago and i have not kept them since.
Oh no! I wanted to get a hammer coral, Duncans and frogspawn down the road. What did you do with the hermits when they started ripping open the mouths? Did they kill the lps when doing that?
Target feeding the hermits or the coral?
Some peppermint shrimp do this as well. Just make sure they eat and also don’t target feed the corals directly too often. The inverts treat the corals like pez dispensers if you do and will reach in or irritate them until they regurgitate and retract. If they have plenty to eat they won’t bother the corals.
I’ve target fed my anemone once so far with a silverside fish, small piece of course. I have reef roids for the zoa and polyp. I was thinking of maybe getting a shrimp for the tank but I worry that I have too many hermits to add one. I also have two zebra turbo snails.
My hermits are jerks and stomp all over the corals, too. But they keep the bases of the corals free from algae and left over food. Corals don’t seem affected at all. Most don’t even close anymore when they get brushed upon unless they are being super trampled.
a picture with whites on would be a lot better about ID but those look like Eagle Eye
That’s good to know. Everything is pretty new to each other so hopefully they’ll just acclimate nicely. The turbo snails have been cleaning everything soooo well, thankfully they haven’t bothered anything other than algae on the rocks or glass.
