First time poster, recently getting back into the saltwater hobby after a ten+ year absence. Hoping to get some advice here,
Recently acquired a 29g tank that was running for close to a year with nothing but a clown(and rock n sand.) Over the last couple months we added another clown for a buddy, a firefish and a cleanup crew of crabs n snails.
Well this week we decided to finally get some corals in there and started with some simple zoa frags. Tonight we get them in and settled into place, I’m sitting there giddy as a school boy as I watch them slowly open, only to start freaking out as these jerk hermits rush over to eat the algae or w/e off the frags but in the process dragging their shells back and forth over them, quickly forcing them to close up and doing what I see as unneeded stress( especially in a new home) and possible damage. So what’s others opinions and experiences? Are these little one and two polyp frags hardy enough to handle these hermits scraping their shells over them? Should I worry about the added stress when already trying to acclimate these guys to my lights etc? What’s the thought on hermits in a possible zoa garden, should I just get rid of them before I get too deep?
thanks in advance!
Recently acquired a 29g tank that was running for close to a year with nothing but a clown(and rock n sand.) Over the last couple months we added another clown for a buddy, a firefish and a cleanup crew of crabs n snails.
Well this week we decided to finally get some corals in there and started with some simple zoa frags. Tonight we get them in and settled into place, I’m sitting there giddy as a school boy as I watch them slowly open, only to start freaking out as these jerk hermits rush over to eat the algae or w/e off the frags but in the process dragging their shells back and forth over them, quickly forcing them to close up and doing what I see as unneeded stress( especially in a new home) and possible damage. So what’s others opinions and experiences? Are these little one and two polyp frags hardy enough to handle these hermits scraping their shells over them? Should I worry about the added stress when already trying to acclimate these guys to my lights etc? What’s the thought on hermits in a possible zoa garden, should I just get rid of them before I get too deep?
thanks in advance!