harlaquin tusk in a 90 gallon reef?

[adambirk]

was wondering if anyone out there has ever been able to keep a tusk with cleaner shrimp? i know that they will eat inverts and i am fine with losing a couple of snails and hermits a month but really do not want to lose my cleaner shrimp. the fish i am thinking about is an austrailian tusk and i am going to try and get it at 2 inch long if possible

[swegyptian]

Mine ate my cleaner shrimp. He was more average in size, at around 6".

[adambirk]

does it mess with any of your starfish?

[knockout]

tagging!

[kirkaz]

Very difficult to find Australian Harlequin Tusk at 2 in, in fact I have never seen an Aussie that size, even most Indo Tusk are 3+ inch....Any Harlequin Tusk that wouldn't kill a Cleaner Shrimp or any other Shrimp eventually should be removed from the gene pool.:D

[dflad]

I had a great tusk fish for quite a long time in my reef. Never messed with my coral banded shrimp or starfish or sea cucumbers or hermits. The only thing he didnt like were my leopard wrasses and in the end that was why i got rid of him.

[adambirk]

thank you for all the replys very helpfull

[massman]

For every 200 harlies I catch, one will be a 2" specimen, so they are not that common.

That being said, it will take a very short time to get much larger. It will decimate your cleaner shrimp.
Ours attempt eating shrimp within seconds of being caught, even whilst in individual plastic containers.

A big risk