Will a porcelain crab host coral or only anemones? If they will host corals, what kinds and how common is it? If not, what kinds of anemones will they host best?
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Porcelain anemone crabs will sometimes inhabit hairy mushroom corals, and probably more.Porcelain anemone crabs I've never heard of forming any symbiotic relationships with coral, while the blue/red porcelains tend to not be symbiotes anything and just hide in rock crevices.
Any anemone would do afaik, they've been encountered in the wild being hosted by a large variety of anemones.
Mine lived in zoas, a torch, a Duncan and eventually my bubble tip anemones.Will a porcelain crab host coral or only anemones? If they will host corals, what kinds and how common is it? If not, what kinds of anemones will they host best?
Although it would be impossible for me to ascertain why your attempts at keeping this species has been unsuccessful. You mentioned "falling apart".These guys will not survive in my tank, and I don’t know why. I really wish they would. Not sure what kills them, but they just start falling apart.
I’ve got sexy shrimp, an unidentified anemone shrimp from reef cleaners, a regular Caribbean porcelain crab, a pom pom crab, several serpent stars, a cherub fish, and two Banggai Cardinals. Everyone else does just fine, but putting a porcelain anemone crab (white) in my tank is a death sentence.
Oh, I’m pretty sure something is killing them - which is why after a couple, I’ve stopped trying to keep them.but as yours disintegrate it 'may be' continued aggression.