Porcelain crab hosted by Scolymia

Cole855 · Jan 20, 2020

My anemone crab has decided to pass up my mushrooms and anemone and is now sitting on my scoly and mini scolys. Do you guys think this will be a problem over time due to the crab bothering them. My scolymia usually opens up at night but now the crab is sitting right on top of it

Terri Caton · Jan 20, 2020

I don’t know but that’s darn cute.

Jake_the_reefer · Jan 20, 2020

I could see it an issue if it cant inflate it cant easilly get foot or open up during the day to get light.

ScottR · Jan 20, 2020

If you move the scoly, it may abandon. If you don’t have an anemone, they’ll move from coral to coral every once in awhile. I’ve had them in a torch, hammer, sun corals... Usually the kind with tentacles.

Cole855 · Jan 20, 2020

ScottR said:
If you move the scoly, it may abandon. If you don’t have an anemone, they’ll move from coral to coral every once in awhile. I’ve had them in a torch, hammer, sun corals... Usually the kind with tentacles.

He used to be in my anemone but i think my clowns chased him off I have 3 hammers and a frog spawn might try to pull him off and toss him on one of them

ScottR · Jan 20, 2020

Cole855 said:
He used to be in my anemone but i think my clowns chased him off I have 3 hammers and a frog spawn might try to pull him off and toss him on one of them

You can’t really force them onto anything. I think you can touch him to scoot him away then simply move the scoly somewhere else for awhile.