Anemone crab and percula pair?

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Trucker84

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Ok, so i ordered this anemone crab with my cleaner pack thinking it would be a hermit crab with an anemone on its back. I know that sounds silly but i saw this ocean video i got from costco with a hermit crab that had a collection of anemones on his back. They even showed him switching shells and pulling the old anemones off and putting them on his new shell. Anyway, thats obviously not what i got. I got a crab living in my anemone. That is all well except i have a pair of percula clown fish showing up soon and i am worried about how they are going to contend for the space in the anemone. He isn't really very big you know. Any one have experience with this?

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id say they would fight, but im no expert when it comes to saltwater. they seem to fight when we put them together at the store, except for once and it was a single maroon clown and the crab and the anemone was so big they did fine. but i would expect an anemone crab and a pair of clowns to get very territorial over an anemone and fight until the other left.

and even if you had gotten what you had previously thought was an anemone crab(anemone hermmit), it would have killed your anemone by trying to put it on his back.
 
that crab forgot the name but is most often peaceful so i think it might be okay.
 
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