Harlequin shrimp compatibility

[wotis11]

I want to get a harlequin shrimp because I recently found a bunch of asterina stars in my tank eating my zoas but I already have a marine betta and a quite large engineer goby. What is the chance that one of them will eat the harlequin?

 

[i cant think]

I want to get a harlequin shrimp because I recently found a bunch of asterina stars in my tank eating my zoas but I already have a marine betta and a quite large engineer goby. What is the chance that one of them will eat the harlequin?

Fairly high, I wouldn’t risk it personally.

How many aquilonastra stars do you have?

 

[Tcook]

Fairly high, I wouldn’t risk it personally.

How many aquilonastra stars do you have?

Do you still have yours?

 

[wotis11]

Fairly high, I wouldn’t risk it personally.

How many aquilonastra stars do you have?

That’s what I was thinking too but wanted a second opinion. I spent a couple hours last night manually removing the stars and got somewhere between 75-100 of them in a cup. I guess I will continue manually removing them and hopefully I can pull them out faster than they can reproduce or at least keep them at low enough numbers that they can’t do any real damage

 

[i cant think]

Do you still have yours?

I gave her to a friend with aquilonastras in an 8’ tank but she’s also noticed that she’s rather active during feeding times so we both think that I had one feeding on frozen.

 

[Terry Le]

I introduced about 3 weeks ago a pair in my 375 reef. First I thought they were eating but found them out together whenever lights dimmed. I have big wrasse, a couple of blue throat triggers. So hopefully they are going to be okay

 

[Pistondog]

Ive had a couple with other shrimp, crabs, wrasses. Do not get one unless the asterinas are plague level. They demolish the asterinas in a few weeks. Gave mine away to other reefers.

 

[wotis11]

Ive had a couple with other shrimp, crabs, wrasses. Do not get one unless the asterinas are plague level. They demolish the asterinas in a few weeks. Gave mine away to other reefers.

My buddy owns a LFS and told me I could borrow one and bring it back once the asterinas were gone but didn’t want to do that if it was just going to get eaten by one of my fish already in the tank