My Top 6 Favourite Inverts (And 1 I HATE!)

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  • čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
  • #CleanUpCrew #Inverts
    Clean up crew doesn't just have to be purely functional. Some inverts can be awesome characters too! In this video, I pick out my top 6...
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Komentáře • 104

  • @mothravita
    @mothravita Před 3 lety +14

    Speaking as someone with an almost all-hermit reef tank, 7 species of hermits cohabiting peacefully with multiple snail species and 3 fighter conchs - no kills either - just supply them with plenty of extra shells in sizes slightly bigger than theirs & hermits are the best crew! I give them some fresh meaty substances (usually diced shrimp) every couple days along with some nori, despite the feedings they still do great cleaning & no aggression. Scarlet hermits have a bad rap, mine haven't had problems but they're quite small, but a beautiful blue knuckle hermit or Halloween hermit might change your mind.

  • @bigadventure3797
    @bigadventure3797 Před 3 lety +12

    My snails reproduce so fast that I don't mind the hermit crabs taking an occasional meal and well earned shell.

    • @nep5182
      @nep5182 Před rokem +2

      What type of snail?

  • @thesecretsquirrel5935
    @thesecretsquirrel5935 Před 2 lety +1

    Got to agree with you on the pistol shrimp/goby relationship. It is indeed one of the most interesting weird relationships in the whole of nature. and a privilege to be able to watch in our living rooms.

  • @tibetanwaves2671
    @tibetanwaves2671 Před měsícem

    Definitely agree with the tuxedo urchin, a great and invaluable part of my CUC 😊

  • @cantusaurus8530
    @cantusaurus8530 Před 3 lety +5

    I have a Tiger pistol shrimp and he’s amazing to watch with the goby! I also have a Pom Pom crab, and in my 33 gallon tank he mostly comes out when I’m feeding the tank, but it is still a really cool invert! And also my serpent star is amazing to watch, it’s crazy how big they can get, but how peaceful they are and how they can fit in small spaces

  • @moereefer
    @moereefer Před 3 lety +5

    Love that with me I had two sexy shrimp and loved them first time I had the little guys for over 18 years they are very cool inverts and are more enjoyed then any other invert dancing all day. They actually get bigger then I thought

  • @aerynstormcrow
    @aerynstormcrow Před 3 lety +7

    I give my hermits empty shells to move into so they don’t kill anything. I think they are hilarious.

  • @NotKumiYeou
    @NotKumiYeou Před 3 lety +2

    my favorite inverts are upside down jellyfish. of course, i have to keep them in a separate tank with no powerheads or other strong flow, but they're so neat to watch

  • @Richs_reef
    @Richs_reef Před 3 lety

    I really like boxing shrimp in a reef, I have a pair that regularly spawn in my tank. Easy to keep, affordable and fun to watch

  • @ChrisRabiej
    @ChrisRabiej Před 3 lety +1

    Cleaner shrimp and conch snails are my best crew. Thanks for video. 👍

  • @leehempson9408
    @leehempson9408 Před 3 lety

    2 x cleaner shrimp and blue tuxedo urchin are top in my tank - great content !!

  • @deadbrother5355
    @deadbrother5355 Před rokem +1

    I had a massive population of asterinas years ago and they seemed nothing but beneficial. However, mine were also wiped out by harlequins because i forgot to buy a chocolate chip star for them once.

  • @MTXCraze
    @MTXCraze Před 3 lety

    i have a pair of conchs and they are all over the tank and even sometimes climb the glass! I also have a bunch of blue leg and scarlet crabs and they never bother any of my snails. The green leg hermits are the most aggressive I've found although they are pretty funny to watch clunk around. I Love my pom pom crab and my candy cane pistol too but both are fairly elusive.

  • @TheHaldenbys
    @TheHaldenbys Před 3 lety

    Love my tiger pistol shrimp, paired with a yasha goby, they've found the perfect location front and centre of tank always out and about.
    So true about anything on the sand bed becoming structural materials lol
    My cleaner shrimp is awesome too wacko jacko he walks on water 🤣

  • @The_KingDoge
    @The_KingDoge Před 2 lety +1

    I know some who keep small tanks to breed pest starfish for their harlequin shrimps to eat, so theres that too if you are really dedicated and have a decent chuck of time and money to spend on that

  • @shabbir78
    @shabbir78 Před 3 lety

    Porcelain crab is cool to watch...Happy weekend

  • @charli_1rl
    @charli_1rl Před 2 lety

    my cleaner shrimp stay a lot on my reef rock, it looks so cool, when I feed my fish they start swimming around a lot, it looks so cool.

  • @dominicmosley8283
    @dominicmosley8283 Před 3 lety

    Another great video, boxer shrimp one of my favourites

  • @jonathanreich9694
    @jonathanreich9694 Před 3 lety

    Really enjoyed this one. Quite funny!!

  • @zafishguy5166
    @zafishguy5166 Před 3 lety

    Love cleaner shrimp but have only had one blue tuxedo urchin and it looks to be dead now I probably should get around to pulling it out.

  • @Cavegeckosol
    @Cavegeckosol Před 3 lety +1

    My favorite invertebrates, maybe even animals in general, are my clams. I have a hippopus and a maxima. They are a limiting factor on what kinds of fish and crabs I can keep, though. Oftentimes, "reef safe" doesn't mean "clam safe" and I 500% rehomed a fairy wrasse who thought that my hippopus was tasty.

  • @WillBayley
    @WillBayley Před 3 lety

    Like living with a scouser. Awesome. Savage, but actually sounded like a term of endearment, which it was of course :-)

  • @benscolari4427
    @benscolari4427 Před 3 lety +2

    Agree with everything apart from cleaner shrimp, mine was a pain in the arse always trying to get food from corals after I fed them really aggravating them got to the point I took him back. Yours might be different because it has to watch out for some of your fish but left unchecked mine was a menace!

    • @angelf289
      @angelf289 Před 3 lety

      You need to give him a piece of food before feeding your corals

  • @freakygoblin3068
    @freakygoblin3068 Před 3 lety

    Never had a problem with hermit crabs killing snails. It may be as I've always ensured there are plenty of empty shells available if the want to swap shells or maybe it's simply luck. Favorite invert, I have a Randalls pistol shrimp (Alpheus randalli) paired with a Yasha goby (Stonogobiops yasha). It's when the takes a single large grain of sand and watching the care it takes to place the grain outside it's dwelling which really gets me.. Really lucky that their "cave" opening is facing the font of the tank so clearly visible. At the moment considering the possibility of getting a couple of aptasia eating peppermint shrimp, simply to try to avoid playing whack a mole with aptasia X. Not sure how long they'd survive with a couple of wrasse in the tank though.

  • @Cam2832x
    @Cam2832x Před 3 lety

    Great videos lately and always. Love cleaner shrimp but they steal food from corals.
    I can’t say I’ve ever had hermits kill my conches though. My conches over the years, that have only died, died from starvation

  • @KillerKev1961
    @KillerKev1961 Před 3 lety

    I love my Fire shrimp, and red and blue Tuxedo urchins.

  • @christianalvarez1726
    @christianalvarez1726 Před 2 lety

    Btw you can keep harlequins if you can get yourself a bunch of choco chip starfish in your fuge and cut off a leg every week and rotate em.

  • @TomsReefs
    @TomsReefs Před 3 lety

    Again same as last week..my Peacock Mantis Shrimp, though...my Sand-Shifting Star is 2nd choice.

  • @tompage8674
    @tompage8674 Před 3 lety

    Great vid. I really like the idea of Hermit crabs. Aside from the snail issue - any other problems? Do they munch algae at all..... I've read differing opinions....

  • @smedspets695
    @smedspets695 Před 3 lety

    Urchins are supper cool. I also just bought a huge turbo snail for the lols. I just have to make sure he's alive because that'd be a tank crash. Thinking of a name maby Tonka the turbo truck.

  • @Bm98-z4y
    @Bm98-z4y Před 3 lety

    Hey what sand is that? I’ve always used live sand but yours looks more stoney and I’ve just set up a new dd pro reef 1200 and would prefer that style

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety +1

      It's ati fiji - a mixture of medium and large 🙂

  • @gertjan2212
    @gertjan2212 Před 3 lety

    The tiny hermids will not hurt your snails, maby some of the smaller ones but I have not see it happen yet.
    I've got 20 small redleg hermids and 4 emerald hermids and the emeralds indeed can kill some snails (and irritate lps).
    They are good detritivores and eat the hard to reach hair algae.

  • @EIY_Kumar
    @EIY_Kumar Před 6 měsíci

    is a silver belly yellow wrasse one of the safer options to keep with percaline crab ?

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 6 měsíci +1

      They're still a risk, especially with small porcelain crabs

  • @lisaik1996
    @lisaik1996 Před 3 lety

    harlequins... what a name! I absolutely adore them.

  • @kingfishers79
    @kingfishers79 Před 3 lety

    Ha ha 😂 that was a funny video maybe you should call your urchin scouse...I love my cleaner shrimp and the trochus snails are non stop, the best snails I have are starry Astrid snails they seem to have a thing for cleaning frag plugs! I have also witnessed hermits killing trochus snails....gotta get me a scouse urchin but tank upgrade has to come first.

  • @kendallreed22
    @kendallreed22 Před 3 lety

    Are there any starfish that are considered pests that would make a good food for the harlequin shrimps.

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety

      Loads, but it doesn't seem fair to me to pull them out of the ocean where they're not pests just to keep these guys. They also eat crown of thorns stars in the wild, which is an invasive species that can wipe out coral reefs. So Harleys are valuable in the wild.

  • @guilhermelabolita
    @guilhermelabolita Před 2 lety

    Is that an aiptasia above the red legged hermit crab shell?

  • @The_KingDoge
    @The_KingDoge Před 2 lety +1

    Ever see a giant knobly creeper? Their like big ceriths the size of conches

  • @TheHaldenbys
    @TheHaldenbys Před 3 lety

    God damn hermits need putting in sticks, getting rid of mine too so can have anouther conch

  • @rupply
    @rupply Před rokem

    a single skunk cleaner shrimp is 200 to 300 dollars here in australia, compared to 10 dollars in the usa

  • @tylermohr25
    @tylermohr25 Před 3 lety +1

    My cleaner shrimp and my starry blenny are best pals

  • @sarlife
    @sarlife Před 3 lety

    I might need to move to the UK if you come to power

  • @elslick
    @elslick Před 3 lety

    Hahahaha my diamond goby has a little catsle built into on of my caves. Hahaha little shit moved almost all of my rubble zone within the first day into a cave mouth, and now has a ridicliously massive cave.

  • @dimossaraglis40
    @dimossaraglis40 Před 3 lety

    cool list but i want to ask something,i have a 250liter tank and i want to add a pom pom crab,a porcelaine crab,1 or 2 cleaner shrimps, a tuxedo urchin, a starfish(probably the ophiolepis superba) and a tiger pistol shrimp with a goby....can they all live together(my fish are all reef safe) and will they produce too much nitrates in my tank????

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety

      Dunno about the starfish but the others are all fine. Inverts have next to no impact on your nitrate levels.

    • @dimossaraglis40
      @dimossaraglis40 Před 3 lety

      @@ReefDork oh nice then..also will they be ok together?i am worried the shrimps and the crabs will fight each other

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety +1

      @@dimossaraglis40 do a bit of research but I don't think it'll be a problem

    • @dimossaraglis40
      @dimossaraglis40 Před 3 lety

      @@ReefDork great thanks for the info

  • @neilsreefaquarium9530
    @neilsreefaquarium9530 Před 3 lety

    Absolutely love your vids. P1ssing myself about the tuxedo urchins and scousers 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @spacepug1246
    @spacepug1246 Před 3 lety +1

    you can feed harlequin shrimp by feeding them a chocolate chip sea star's leg once a week

  • @marcuswebb21
    @marcuswebb21 Před 3 lety +11

    Just waiting for the comments from Liverpool 🤣

  • @quransunnah96
    @quransunnah96 Před 3 lety

    u changed your led n t5? is that orphek now?

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety

      Yep! 2x Evergrow IT5012s and an Orphek OR3 120 blue plus. I've done a video for the Evergrows, just getting used to the Orphek then will do a video for that too.

  • @sporcu1175
    @sporcu1175 Před 2 lety

    which inverts can go with clownfish?

  • @Michael_k_DK
    @Michael_k_DK Před rokem

    Do you still have these lamps ?

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před rokem +1

      The Evergrows? No, I moved them on a few months ago. Fantastic lights though - right up there with the best.

  • @DigitalPaintCan
    @DigitalPaintCan Před rokem

    What's your substrate?

  • @imtherandom1-780
    @imtherandom1-780 Před 3 lety

    I can't keep any shrimps or crabs because I have a snowflake eel.

  • @CasildaChenier
    @CasildaChenier Před rokem

    Do blue urchin eat macroalgae?

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před rokem

      Never tried it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did

  • @sunnygoold9449
    @sunnygoold9449 Před 3 lety

    Great list - I came back from a road trip to croatia with an urchin, several hermits and snails (plus a massive blenny which has it's own tank in my son's room). The snails all died but I am thinking it may have been the hermits. The urchin is awesome - does help with algae but not as well as I hoped - and doesn't steal frags.
    I like that my emerald crab eats bubble algae but I suspect he ate a frag of clove polyps. I find nassarius snails to be quite good and tetrus and trochus snails are awesome.
    Going up the list of great inverts for me is my serpent star, bristle worms and asterina snails - the latter 2 being free cleanup crew.
    My favourite invert though has to be my clams - my Hipoppus is probably the best water clarifier you can get and my crocea is just stunning.
    I have a blood shrimp also - great call on cleaner shrimp. - that one is near the top too. I would get the multicoloured urchin but I'd rather spend money on corals. I just got 3 XS peppermint shrimp which have disappeared - but I only have mollies and pipefish so they will be somewhere. If I see less aptasia popping up they may occupy the second tier.
    Yeah I think I will evict the hermits eventually.

  • @madshepsreef282
    @madshepsreef282 Před 3 lety

    My tiger pistol is a massive arse, iv lost 4 Yasha gobys. He just clicks at them and kicks them out into the open.

  • @NotSoNano
    @NotSoNano Před 2 lety

    Subscribing for the scouser comment 😂

  • @Mark-hb2zy
    @Mark-hb2zy Před 2 lety

    Here looking for the Scouser that's about to cancel reef dork.

  • @dominicpowell3867
    @dominicpowell3867 Před 3 lety

    Can you keep Randall’s goby with chalk goby ?

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety

      Probably, the Randall's will stay in a cave if you get a pistol shrimp too. You might have trouble in a sub 3 foot tank though

  • @alexspycho
    @alexspycho Před 3 lety

    Peppermint shrimp.
    nasarius and trochus, red leg dwarf hermits.
    pale face acro crabs.
    Ophiurus starfish.

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety

      Oh, yes! Acro crabs! 👍

  • @TheWyattStephens
    @TheWyattStephens Před 3 lety

    Thankfully my flame hawk hasn't been interested in my pistol, cleaner, or sexy shrimp

  • @spinefishaquatics3030
    @spinefishaquatics3030 Před 3 lety

    Do NOT put a conch in a bedroom aquarium. They slam their shells against the glass as they move. 3am: THONK THONK..........THONK.

  • @South-Texas-Drones_5801

    Tiger tail sea cucumber

  • @Mcgrawjp
    @Mcgrawjp Před 3 lety

    Cleaner shrimp ate my sandsifting star fish I wasn’t feeding him enough but that made me angry

  • @roberthodgkinson406
    @roberthodgkinson406 Před rokem

    Being a scouser i take no offence 😂😂

  • @modotd3885
    @modotd3885 Před 3 lety +2

    Scousers 😂😂😂

  • @DavidMFabrication
    @DavidMFabrication Před 3 lety

    Can you close a debate between me and my wife please?
    We have been discussing what you do for work and I said IT and she said electrician? 😂🤣😂🤣 who is closet?

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety +1

      You're MUCH closer! I have zero electrical knowledge! I'm an Ombudsman 🙂

  • @kawaiizombiegal
    @kawaiizombiegal Před 3 lety

    okay so why did u just not feed the harlequins other star fish like sand sifting stars or chocolate c hip stars? seriously, they arent hard to keep alive at all

  • @dominikkowalik3293
    @dominikkowalik3293 Před 2 lety

    GIVE YOUR URCHIN A HAT!

  • @anguirosuchus55
    @anguirosuchus55 Před 3 lety

    Team pistol shrimp
    l
    l
    V

  • @sharkdevotee5178
    @sharkdevotee5178 Před 3 lety

    first

  • @kennethfelipe823
    @kennethfelipe823 Před 3 lety

    I don’t trust crabs.

  • @Meganzales
    @Meganzales Před 3 lety +5

    Hmm not a great scouser comment 👎🏻

    • @Yeowie_
      @Yeowie_ Před 3 lety +1

      Yep, disappointing.

    • @ReefDork
      @ReefDork  Před 3 lety

      Only joking 🙂

    • @briankavanagh7191
      @briankavanagh7191 Před 3 lety

      @@ReefDork just subscribed, but as soon as I heard the Scouser comment unsubscribed.