![]() But once in a while you get one that has an evil streak. ![]() So, in summary, 95% of pom poms are peaceful and reclusive and I love them. Someone else on here had a little 2.5 tank that had a pom pom, and they posted a video showing their punk crab dragging baby hermits to its lair. Shelby was also suspected of eating my remaining blasto polyps that had survived the crashpocalypse and a new blasto I'd bought too (there was literally nothing else in the tank and these polyps were healthy and fluffy and the next day were picked clean skeleton). The Freshwater Pom Pom Crab has a very wide geographic distribution. They can exceed the one-inch mark if the crabs have very good genetics (some crab’s sizes have even reached upto 1.75 inches). The beaten up crab did not fare well and when looking closely at her carapace and comparing it to the pictures I had, I realized it wasn't Shelby! I realized I had been punked! Freshwater Pom Pom crab’s average size is between 0.6 and 1 inch in width. It was my husband who first realized that one crab was EATING THE OTHER'S LEG WHILE IT WAS STILL ALIVE!!! I separated them and captured the cannibal crab, thinking it was the newcomer beating up poor Shelby, and we returned it to the LFS for a refund. More about the anemone/crab relationship: Crabs usually use their pincers to tear food apart, but for pom pom crabs this would mean having to put down their. At first, all seemed well, but a day or two later.we came home and found the two crabs hanging off my macroalgae and watched them wondering what on earth was going on. ![]() I decided to add another because I'd heard they share poms and bought a sweet little crab from a different LFS and named her Shirley. When the tank crashed, Shelby survived but lost her poms. She was very bold, cruising all over the tank and showing off (there are many pics and videos on the link in my sig to the 1.6 gallon, which started as a 2.3 gallon, crashed, became a 3.5, then a 1.6 just before I moved the 1.6 gallon is currently my frag tank). I got a pom pom from the LFS and named her Shelby. And then there was Shelby.Ībout a year ago, I was getting back on Nano-Reef and back into reefing. My very first pom pom ever, years ago, lost a pom and swiped a powder blue ric that shriveled up and turned white since he always hid-once I removed the terrorist zebra hermit, he came out more often. The one in my frag tank is mostly shy but does come out sometimes, especially when lights are out (that one also has a pink pom and a white one which I love, usually both poms are the same color). ![]() A couple months ago I added a second who had poms and though I was extremely worried due to the Shelby Saga, they got along famously and shared their poms and both are much bolder and I see one or the other and sometimes both hanging out in the open. I went a month or more without seeing him. In my 5.5, one was added over the summer, he lost his poms along the way and was extremely shy (most pom pom crabs are very reclusive). Right now I have 3, 2 in my 5.5 and 1 in my little frag quarantine tank. So I've had about 10 pom poms over the years. Most people do not have issues with them but there once was a Pom Pom named Shelby. ![]()
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