Selling and trading on ReefCentral. I cannot find anything regarding this lobster. I want to put one in my 55gal but i dont know anything about it. What fish can i put with him? What to feed it? Will it eat my new snails? What corals can i put in the tank also? Any help is good help! Thanks all! The elongated, flat claws which are used for threats and defense may be purple, as well.
An ideal environment should have a thick gravel bed for burrowing, and rocks for hiding, as well as live rock on which to hunt. After molting, the Reef Lobster will need a secure hiding place, such as a cave, while it waits for its new exoskeleton to harden.
The cave can be designed so that the lobster can be seen during the day, but it usually will spend most of the daylight hours hiding from the light. It prefers to scavenge and hunt at night. The Reef Lobster is described as peaceful, and it will ignore sleeping Wrasses or healthy fish within the aquarium. Caution must be taken when incorporating into a reef aquarium, as it may harm small fish and invertebrates. All Reef Lobsters are very territorial and aggressive towards each other, so only one specimen, or a mated pair should be kept per tank.
It is sensitive to high levels of copper-based medications. Most of the diet will consist of food it scavenges, but supplementing with iodine-rich foods will help ensure proper molting.
It may eat snails, etc. It will spend it's time hiding behind your live rock. Good info! This role is imperative to ensuring these small organisms do not overpopulate their ecosystem. What Do Lobsters Eat?. Top 16 Animals with the Best Hearing.
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This makes them definite maybes for reef aquariums. However, they may eat fish smaller than themselves if they can catch the fish sleeping. Conversely, do not keep them with large, predatory fish like lionfish, which can eat reef lobsters. Diet varies by the type of lobster. Spiny and rock lobsters need a diverse diet, including various types of seafood. Rotate through meaty foods such as crab, fish and mussels.
They also need some veggie foods, so feed them dried nori or algae pellets from the fish store. Reef lobsters are enthusiastic omnivores who will usually eat whatever they can scrounge from the aquarium. Hobbyists with larger aquariums that are 6 to 8 feet in length or larger can successfully keep multiple reef lobsters assuming they also have plenty of live rock to create multiple territories within the tank.
Like most invertebrates Daum's Reef Lobster is sensitive to high levels of copper in the water from copper-based medications.
While Daum's Reef Lobsters prefer to scavenge and hunt for food at night, they will overtime adjust to aquarium life and come out more during lights on hours and during feeding times. Most of their diet will consist of food it scavenges, but supplementing with iodine-rich foods will help ensure proper molting.
Supplemental feeding via sinking shrimp pellets or similar meaty items will ensure that the lobster is well fed and lesson the chance that they will prey on smaller snails, ornamental shrimp or small fish species.
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