Pom Pom Crab is a thief
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not sure. Funny though. You could maybe take a plastic piece or a card and scrape the anemone off.
Stomatopods17
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Idk how thats physically possible tbh.
May we see photos? Are you sure its a condy anemone the crab picked up?
Even aiptasia is too big for them let alone any condy I've seen.
EDIT: I wanted to research before I said it, but yeah pom pom crabs are only known for picking up Triactis producta in hawaii, and in the indo-pacific been recorded with Bunodeopsis anemones alongside Triactis. It shouldn't even view condylactus as a viable anemone. There was even a study with a group of 50 of them and 48 of them all had the same anemone... the other 2 just were noted missing one or more anemones.
If you can provide a photo maybe something else is going on or this isn't really a condy anemone we're talking about.
May we see photos? Are you sure its a condy anemone the crab picked up?
Even aiptasia is too big for them let alone any condy I've seen.
EDIT: I wanted to research before I said it, but yeah pom pom crabs are only known for picking up Triactis producta in hawaii, and in the indo-pacific been recorded with Bunodeopsis anemones alongside Triactis. It shouldn't even view condylactus as a viable anemone. There was even a study with a group of 50 of them and 48 of them all had the same anemone... the other 2 just were noted missing one or more anemones.
If you can provide a photo maybe something else is going on or this isn't really a condy anemone we're talking about.
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coralnoob22
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I can snap a picture the next time I see her. The anemone on it has the purple tips on it just like the condy I had that shriveled up.
formallydehyde
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This is a pom pom crab with an Alicia anemone (on its claws and growing freely) from this paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2013.07.011
Any chance it looked like that?
I wouldn't be surprised if a pom pom crab got desperate and took a non-preferred anemone if they completely lost both though, their claws are nearly useless without an anemone.
Any chance it looked like that?
I wouldn't be surprised if a pom pom crab got desperate and took a non-preferred anemone if they completely lost both though, their claws are nearly useless without an anemone.
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