fredmertz
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Oct 16, 2011
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I have the most timid blue lobster you have ever seen. He spent the better part of 4 months hidden under a large piece of mopani driftwood, only poking his claws out once in a while to grab some dried shrimp.
I recently removed the driftwood and provided him with a cave to live in, but he managed to squeeze himself so compactly into a corner of the cave that we still never saw him.
I completely redid the ornamentation of the 75g tank and he now doesn't have a cave so he hides/burrows at the bases of the various tall, fake plants, but this morning I found him near the top of a 14" rock wall ornament.
He has never appeared to be a threat to any of the other inhabitants of the tank and generally seems kind of scared by most of them (5 rainbows, 5 angels, 4 yoyo loaches). Am I asking for trouble not giving him a dedicated place to hide?
I want to balance the fact that there's no point in having him if I never see him with the fact that I don't want him to start eating his tankmates.
Any thoughts?
I recently removed the driftwood and provided him with a cave to live in, but he managed to squeeze himself so compactly into a corner of the cave that we still never saw him.
I completely redid the ornamentation of the 75g tank and he now doesn't have a cave so he hides/burrows at the bases of the various tall, fake plants, but this morning I found him near the top of a 14" rock wall ornament.
He has never appeared to be a threat to any of the other inhabitants of the tank and generally seems kind of scared by most of them (5 rainbows, 5 angels, 4 yoyo loaches). Am I asking for trouble not giving him a dedicated place to hide?
I want to balance the fact that there's no point in having him if I never see him with the fact that I don't want him to start eating his tankmates.
Any thoughts?
