What are some cool very unique and interesting inverts?

[Oscaror]

My next tank will be very invert focused and I'm making a wish list. What are the coolest reef safe inverts you know of?

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Squat lobsters are awesone

 

[Old Fritz]

I have an invert tank and i love it. It was supposed to have fish in it but one fish brought in ich and i removed all the fish in the tank.

Right now i have a blood red fire shrimp, Scarlet reef hermit crabs, blue leg hermit crabs, electric blue hermit crabs, red sea star, a couple pin cushion urchins, skunk cleaner shrimp, and a couple feather dusters

One of my friends has a blue spiny lobster and sexy shrimp.

 

[falc]

I enjoy my watching my Porcelain crabs, they seem ready to take on the World no matter how out sized they may be. Also enjoy watching mantis shrimp interact..

 

[Oscaror]

Squat lobsters are awesone

Yes I love them! I'll actually post up my wish list so people know what I already want and compatibility

Inverts:
Red knob starfish (Don't worry about reef safeness I have a very unique, interesting, and difficult workaround that I'm keeping secret until I can get my tank going)
Sexy shrimp
Blood shrimp
Skunk cleaner shrimp
Pom Pom Crab
Squat lobster
Porcelain crab
Coco worm (can someone tell me about these? I heard they don't have the best survival rates)
Feather dusters
Acropora crabs
Clam

I have an invert tank and i love it. It was supposed to have fish in it but one fish brought in ich and i removed all the fish in the tank.

Right now i have a blood red fire shrimp, Scarlet reef hermit crabs, blue leg hermit crabs, electric blue hermit crabs, red sea star, a couple pin cushion urchins, skunk cleaner shrimp, and a couple feather dusters

One of my friends has a blue spiny lobster and sexy shrimp.

Those lobsters are awesome, but I'm not sure they'd be compatible with my current list.

ALSO I plan on keeping fish too, but I just love the life and diversity that inverts add to a reef tank so I want as many different ones as possible

 

[408Dartfish]

I like the fighting conches I have. The Babylon snail pretty cool also. Dustin

 

[Oscaror]

I enjoy my watching my Porcelain crabs, they seem ready to take on the World no matter how out sized they may be. Also enjoy watching mantis shrimp interact..

If only I could have a mantis shrimp, maybe a refugium pet?

 

[Oscaror]

I like the fighting conches I have. The Babylon snail pretty cool also. Dustin

Do you think a red knob starfish would be safe with the conches? Or would it (the starfish) eat them. I know they're opportunistic carnivores which is why I haven't added snails to the list.

 

[rkpetersen]

If you can live without decorative starfish, a bonded pair of Harlequin Shrimp are fascinating to watch as they hunt and carry off sea stars.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

If you want some fish as well, got to have a randalls pistol and a goby or two

 

[Scotty Buttons]

I'd say a tuxedo urchin and a decorator crab are pretty neat.

 

[Oscaror]

I'd say a tuxedo urchin and a decorator crab are pretty neat.

Do you think the decorator crab would cause problems? I have no problem with it fragging some of my corals as long as they aren't actually harmed.

 

[Old Fritz]

I'd say a tuxedo urchin and a decorator crab are pretty neat.

Decorators are not reef safe

 

[Oscaror]

Decorators are not reef safe

I hear this often because they frag zoas and whatnot but I also heard that they can be sustained in a reef. I really love them they're one of my favorites but if this is the case I can't sacrifice my corals. I've got my eyes on some nice zoas and wouldn't want them destroyed by a crab

 

[Oscaror]

If you want some fish as well, got to have a randalls pistol and a goby or two

Do you think that the red knob starfish would try to eat them? I have plans that it'll be pretty much banished to the sand bed and glass walls

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

I have no idea, never kept a starfish.

 

[Oscaror]

I have no idea, never kept a starfish.

If they're compatible I'll definitely add them to the list.

 

[Oscaror]

Are sea cucumbers incompatible with red knob stars? I'm guessing they are

 

[falc]

I have a Coco worm and a regular feather worm in my 10gal amphipod nursery for about 7 months, they are doing good but only other inhabitants of that tank are hermit crabs and snails. I am not sure how they would do in a display with anything aggressive??

 

[Oscaror]

I have a Coco worm and a regular feather worm in my 10gal amphipod nursery for about 7 months, they are doing good but only other inhabitants of that tank are hermit crabs and snails. I am not sure how they would do in a display with anything aggressive??

Aggression is not an issue I won't be adding anything that would endanger them, I just read once that coco worms often die of starvation. If you're having success though that's good news. They really are beautiful inverts.