Anemone shrimp/crab with anemonefishes

[Pszemol]

If I have one v. large anemone in the tank inhabited with a pair of anemonefishes
like maroon clownfish - is there a room for an anemone crab/shrimp there ?
Will the fish treat crab/shrimp as a competition for the anemone and
cause conflicts ? Who will win the conflict, is crab/shrimp equiped to
deal with such issues or is doomed from the beginning ?

To give you a picture how the situation looks like today here is the link:
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/9110f2c63518713d900ab33a6ee0fabd/chem-war.html
As you can see, there is a chemical war going on between the growing anemone
and brown button polyps and I need to take care of this by spreading the rocks
but the main point of the pictures here is to show the size relationship of
the fishes and the anemone. Is there a room for a small anemone shrimp/crab?
Or rather not a single chance...

[PaulB]

Usually the fish drive the crab or shrimp from the anemone, but not always.

"Pszemol" > wrote in message
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> If I have one v. large anemone in the tank inhabited with a pair of
> anemonefishes
> like maroon clownfish - is there a room for an anemone crab/shrimp there ?
> Will the fish treat crab/shrimp as a competition for the anemone and
> cause conflicts ? Who will win the conflict, is crab/shrimp equiped to
> deal with such issues or is doomed from the beginning ?
>
> To give you a picture how the situation looks like today here is the link:
> http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/9110f2c63518713d900ab33a6ee0fabd/chem-war.html
> As you can see, there is a chemical war going on between the growing
> anemone
> and brown button polyps and I need to take care of this by spreading the
> rocks
> but the main point of the pictures here is to show the size relationship
> of
> the fishes and the anemone. Is there a room for a small anemone
> shrimp/crab?
> Or rather not a single chance...