What unusual shrimp/crab?

[Bill19]

arrrg every things so confusing, lol there aint enough info on the web on these shrimp! lol one source says if they dont have host they sulk, an other two say they are fine.... help lol
I am liking the look of venstetus, how much are these shrimps:
the above posts Urocaridella cleaner shrimp?
bumble bees pair?
Periclimenes venustus possibly two
and those long arm shrimps]and how much are pom poms?
thanks for all the help Macca

[Bill19]

Sorry if i have boggled you with questions lol

[Macca]

Host shrimps can adopt to other surroundings, Bumble bee shrimps dont have to be on the back of a cucumber but can quite happily rome around your rockwork or tank looking for food.

Venustus will be around the £5 to £10 mark probably bang in the middle. I have urocaridella.sp of cleaner in now at £7.50 as well as P.tenuipes at the same price. And Pom Pom will be at the dearest £7.50 too. I like the figure £7.50 :D

[Bill19]

oooh not as expensive as i thought :D i am glad you like the figure £7.50 lol
thanks for the help, and as soon as i have the money* i will most likley be sending a check your way! lol

*may take a while, lol!

[Bill19]

oh and how much is abumble bee shrimp pair? :p

[sinaarrgghh]

Forget all of that, ask for a decorator crab. Most utterly, astonishingly wierd beast on the planet. Love mine to bits. Not that I see him that often, even if I am looking straight at him at the time! :)

[dan-dare]

don't decorators pinch zoas and little frags for their shells?
Also, what happens when they moult?

[Bill19]

My LFS often has decoraters, in but its quite a chunky, guy, and i personally wouldn't be comfortable have such a sizable beast in my lil tank :)

[sinaarrgghh]

don't decorators pinch zoas and little frags for their shells?
Also, what happens when they moult?

They do grab the odd bit but not so much as to cause a problem. No idea about the moulting, have yet to see any evidence of it having happened though I'm sure it has. Maybe it just sticks the bits back on. :D

My LFS often has decoraters, in but its quite a chunky, guy, and i personally wouldn't be comfortable have such a sizable beast in my lil tank :)

I'll give you that he is quite a size, scares the hell out of you when he moves and you'd not noticed him. I don't think he's very fast though, seems happy to scavenge and does'nt seem to have killed anything of mine.