CONE_MacFlounder
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Does anyone actually have/had one of these guys?
They are currently my dream animal and I would love to own one
Probably 99% of the threads on every single forum are full of people saying 'i dont own one but this one random website says ________' and honestly i dont believe half of the things theyre saying and asking my lfs anything is pointless considering half the time they have a 'dardanus' species its very obviously not half the time its not even got a single hair on it
I mean a lot of the websites I see seem to be copy pasting their information for the guttatus from their page on a megiostos when the two are very clearly different in size at least
A lot of places say that theyre maybe 10cm at most which ok is pretty big but thinstripes can get around the same size and ive personally seen a Calcinus laevimanus that would have been 2-3" and own a halloween around 2-3" too so i doubt they would be some giant destroying machine like everyone seems to think
I hear people say a lot about them being aggressive and fighting but half of people who own marine hermits dont even provide extra shells so im not sure if i believe how aggressive people make them out to be personally
Ive owned hermits both land and marine for many years now and not once have i had a serious fight that wasnt just a one off for establishing dominance
As I say I own a very large halloween already who is probably 2-3x the width of the other hermits in my tank but he doesnt bother them at all because why would he like hes got plenty of room and food and its not like its going to be fighting over shells
The only issue I can imagine happening is a guttatus fighting that large halloween because of the same bodyshape and thus shell preference which oh no god forbid i have to buy a pack of shells for hardly anything to keep them content nigh on their entire lives
Im also not sure I believe the whole 'predatory' aspect too i mean even the largest hermit (coconut crab) is hardly predatory and mostly a scavenger that will opportunistically prey on things occasionally if food is scarce i mean crabs wouldnt be called the oceans food disposal if they were predatory all the time
My current tank stock list is basically nothing as the heatwave last year (40c in my room) killed the majority of corals and we only ever had one fish which lived to its expected lifespan anyway so literally all i have in the tank is some gsp like coral 4 hermits and a sea hare and i dont think my hermits even recognise the seahare as a living being as they just try walk over it like its a rock most of the time
So questions for anyone who actually owns one of these guys
Does yours actually predate anything (specifically hermits and sea hares) if fed enough?
Has yours ever fought with other hermits if so was it a dominance issue a shell issue or predation?
What other tankmates have you successfully kept with a guttatus if any?
I did speak briefly to my lfs online who said they have the ability to order one in and that theyd have no issues ordering one for me specifically
They are currently my dream animal and I would love to own one
Probably 99% of the threads on every single forum are full of people saying 'i dont own one but this one random website says ________' and honestly i dont believe half of the things theyre saying and asking my lfs anything is pointless considering half the time they have a 'dardanus' species its very obviously not half the time its not even got a single hair on it
I mean a lot of the websites I see seem to be copy pasting their information for the guttatus from their page on a megiostos when the two are very clearly different in size at least
A lot of places say that theyre maybe 10cm at most which ok is pretty big but thinstripes can get around the same size and ive personally seen a Calcinus laevimanus that would have been 2-3" and own a halloween around 2-3" too so i doubt they would be some giant destroying machine like everyone seems to think
I hear people say a lot about them being aggressive and fighting but half of people who own marine hermits dont even provide extra shells so im not sure if i believe how aggressive people make them out to be personally
Ive owned hermits both land and marine for many years now and not once have i had a serious fight that wasnt just a one off for establishing dominance
As I say I own a very large halloween already who is probably 2-3x the width of the other hermits in my tank but he doesnt bother them at all because why would he like hes got plenty of room and food and its not like its going to be fighting over shells
The only issue I can imagine happening is a guttatus fighting that large halloween because of the same bodyshape and thus shell preference which oh no god forbid i have to buy a pack of shells for hardly anything to keep them content nigh on their entire lives
Im also not sure I believe the whole 'predatory' aspect too i mean even the largest hermit (coconut crab) is hardly predatory and mostly a scavenger that will opportunistically prey on things occasionally if food is scarce i mean crabs wouldnt be called the oceans food disposal if they were predatory all the time
My current tank stock list is basically nothing as the heatwave last year (40c in my room) killed the majority of corals and we only ever had one fish which lived to its expected lifespan anyway so literally all i have in the tank is some gsp like coral 4 hermits and a sea hare and i dont think my hermits even recognise the seahare as a living being as they just try walk over it like its a rock most of the time
So questions for anyone who actually owns one of these guys
Does yours actually predate anything (specifically hermits and sea hares) if fed enough?
Has yours ever fought with other hermits if so was it a dominance issue a shell issue or predation?
What other tankmates have you successfully kept with a guttatus if any?
I did speak briefly to my lfs online who said they have the ability to order one in and that theyd have no issues ordering one for me specifically
