Favorite types of invertebrates

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I have the basics in my tank, like snails crabs, and even a serpent star, but does anyone have any wierd ones you like? Such as a lettuce sea slug, a sea cucumbers, or maybe even an urchin. Tell me what kind of interesting inverts I should get.
 
Staghorn hermit crab. His shell grows with him. Hes my favorite right now, barely beating out my fire shrimp.
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I have two lettuce sea slugs, they are pretty awesome to watch as they cruise around the tank. @melypr1985 that is an awesome looking crab!

Thanks! I think he's pretty cool. My lfs is neat, my friend there will order weird stuff he knows will go in my tank and point them out to me. He also knows to keep them in my budget which is nice. :) Every now and then I even buy one... like the crab.
 
  1. Tiger sand conch. Very cool. Weird looking. One of the best cleaners. And pretty active. I love them
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Oh yeah! I have one of those too. They are really neat with the eyes you can see sticking out of the sand when they bury themselves. There vacuum mouth is neat too. Its like an elephant trunk that reaches out and around to eat things. I love the weird
 
  1. Tiger sand conch. Very cool. Weird looking. One of the best cleaners. And pretty active. I love them
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I have a fighting conch and they are really weird looking but so much fun to watch.
 
I like my trochus snails, tongan fighting conch and scarlet hermits. They do most of the clean up work in my tank.
 
Definitely recommend a conch, they're awesome!

Also if you have a smaller tank, Pom pom crabs and sexy shrimp are awesome :)

EDIT: Also I love my new tuxedo urchin. He's awesome :D
 
Sexy shrimps are awesome in that size tank (my boyfriend has one in his 40B and loves it) but beware wrasses can pick them off and eat them. They really like to host anemones if you have any which is cool to watch (ours hosted a bubble tip until the clowns found it then he founded the rock flower nems). I'm pretty sure they'll be fine without though. They're the only shrimp my boyfriend likes because if you feed them they don't go out of their way to stead food from coral.

Pom pom crabs are one of my favorites. They're really cool looking and fun to watch. However, the vast majority tend to be nocturnal and only come out at night (mine came out all the time so this not always true). They're pretty small so may also need to watch with wrasses with them.

I love my new blue tuxedo urchin, he picks up everything (sand, shells (sometimes with snails still in it), small rocks, thermometer,ect). It's so much fun to watch. I actually go out of my way to make him frags of zoas for him to wear so that he's always colorfully decorated. They supposedly eat a wide variety of algaes (including many nussiance algaes) and even corralline algae.
 
The LFS has a sea apple, and though I can't say I'd ever buy one, it looks pretty neat.

My LFS has had a sea apple for over a year and it mysteriously vanished. My husband wants one so bad, but I'm too scared to get one.
 
I am loving my fuge mantis. He is such a character. As far as reef friendly my conch or anemone crab would be my favorites
 
Its not mine, but its cool. My LFS just got the "giant hermit crabs" in today. And yes, thats a man's hand not a childs. Thats huge!
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