More than one shrimp in a reef tank?

[omerseymen]

Hi guys, i only have a fire shrimp in my 250 liter lps & soft mixed tank. I am planning to add more species of shrimps. Doctor, boxer, and sexy shrimp are some of my favorites.
Can they do well with each other? Or should i be aware of them?
And i want to add little crabs, if reef safe, is there anything you can suggest?
(i have conches, snails, starfishes and some fishes, so they should be doing well with them)

 

[saltcats]

Porcelain anemone crabs are very cute and reef safe!

 

[Tang fastic]

Hi guys, i only have a fire shrimp in my 250 liter lps & soft mixed tank. I am planning to add more species of shrimps. Doctor, boxer, and sexy shrimp are some of my favorites.
Can they do well with each other? Or should i be aware of them?
And i want to add little crabs, if reef safe, is there anything you can suggest?
(i have conches, snails, starfishes and some fishes, so they should be doing well with them)

You can and more ornamental shrimp but beware of adding more than one boxer as they could fight but I don’t have much experience with them as I have a hawk fish

 

[Tang fastic]

Porcelain anemone crabs are very cute and reef safe!

If he has some clowns an anemone crab could course trouble as they would fight over their host anemone

 

[Uncle99]

Fire, Skunk and Peps I’ve kept together.
I trust no crab whatsoever.

 

[jkcoral]

I have 2 fire, 2 skunk, and 6 sexy shrimp right now. Everyone is cool with eachother.

I also don’t trust crabs, but Pom Poms and Pithos would be the only exceptions.

 

[Tang fastic]

Fire, Skunk and Peps I’ve kept together.
I trust no crab whatsoever.

Crabs are escape artists

 

[omerseymen]

I have 2 fire, 2 skunk, and 6 sexy shrimp right now. Everyone is cool with eachother.

I also don’t trust crabs, but Pom Poms and Pithos would be the only exceptions.

I have seen a video of pompom crab eating one of the fire shrimp's molt. I am afraid of getting one but dunno if it eats the shrimp while alive.

 

[omerseymen]

I have 2 fire, 2 skunk, and 6 sexy shrimp right now. Everyone is cool with eachother.

I also don’t trust crabs, but Pom Poms and Pithos would be the only exceptions.

How long have you been breeding them?

 

[Dburr1014]

I had a blood and cbs in my 75g for well over 2 years. Now they reside in my 150.
Zero problems.

 

[Tang fastic]

I have seen a video of pompom crab eating one of the fire shrimp's molt. I am afraid of getting one but dunno if it eats the shrimp while alive.

Probably wouldn’t eat they when they are alive since they would move around and fight back and Pom Pom crabs wouldn’t even have the ball to play around with a living shrimp

 

[Dburr1014]

You can and more ornamental shrimp but beware of adding more than one boxer as they could fight but I don’t have much experience with them as I have a hawk fish

You can get them as a mated pair, but yes, don't buy 2 separately.