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I was wondering if I put a juvenile teardrop in my tank with trochus snails and featherdusters, would the fish try to eat them? I've read that they are the least reef safe butterflyfish out there, but I haven't read any specifics with keeping them with snails.

I personally would'nt trust the hermits around that many snails in the long run. Unless they are well fed and have plenty of shells to choose from ...... they might attack your snails, which are usually worth more than the hermits. Then again there are the exceptions, but crabs in general are...

There simply aren't many. You can however get aquacultured abalone, tridacna clams, and cuttlefish to name a few. Stuff like cleaner shrimps are probably not aquacultured simply because it may not be very profitable right now. There may be some placed that do this that I don't know. There are...

You should try a pencil eel ( dwarf golden eel), or maybe the humu trigger, after all the picasso trigger is Hawaii's state. But I do think the trigger might get too big though. Maybe a christmas wrasse? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

So you think it shouldn't be a problem? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Will they coexist? Will the false percula clown fish attack the crab?

Which one are you talking about? The one that carries anemones or the ones that don't? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Also remember since it has some water cleansing property it might make the tank brighter. The tank being brighter is also a possibility. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

I have heard mollies actually do much better in brackish, but why a fish and not something like a snail? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

There are ways to get rid of them like getting a harlequin shrimp, BUT you may need to rehome it after there are no more sea stars, unless you want to spend $6~$10 every two weeks or so to feed the shrimp, as the shrimp only eats sea stars and rarely urchins.

I suspect they are collected as they are probably tedious to breed, like most crustaceans in our hobby. They are probably too easy to catch to even attempt to breed them for lucrative reasons. Even if people bred them, the captive bred ones would probably cost much more. Sent from my...

Too bad the only starfish I can get have very little information about them. For example there is no way I can get a chocolate chip sea star, but I can get a purple linckia. I know what species of linckia that purple linckia is but if you search up that species, the diet of the species is not...

I've heard strawberry crabs (if you are not talking about the hermit crab) are not reef safe, even though liveaquaria lists it as so. The strawberry crab I've read have been reported to attack fish. Also pom pom crabs are rarely seen, but they are very interesting. I have heard that some grow an...

Notice how the pom pom crab here isn't red an has the usual pattern? It seems like that the color of the pom pom crab in Hawaii is much different. Also it lost on of its anemone...

I have 2 pom pom crabs in my 5.5 g, I see them at night from time to time. Even in a small tank a rarely see them. Although I doubt you would get the same species as mine. I keep the Hawaiian pom pom crabs, I am not sure how different they are in terms of behaviour but they look kind of...