Pom pomless crab?

[Foxchase]

So I just purchased a Pom Pom crab and while acclimating realized the crab didn't have it's anemones. I did speak to the person who sold it and he gave me a refund and let me keep the crab.

My question is, is there anyway to get it some anemones? Or do anything to help ?

 

[andrewey]

The crab will be just fine without them. They often loose them in the wild and our tanks. Not a problem for its survival at all. If you introduce another pom pom crab, the one missing anemones will often fight to try and take one. Left without any anemones, it will be a normal crab or sometimes it will pick up random coral polyps and use those as surrogate "pom poms". You can't easily buy the anemones, but I wouldn't sweat it.

 

[F i s h y]

Thats to bad, part of the allure of this species is the relationship it has with its anemones. It will be alright without them. Happy reefing!