Can I keep Soon Hock (Oxyeleotris marmorata) and freshwater lobster together?

[simontay78]

Will they fight each other? I put about 5-6 young "Soon Hock" together with 5-6 young freshwater lobster...I bet this image makes people feel hungry?

[Shaihulud]

The "lobster" might eat the soon hock at that relative size. I had one of those blue lobster, same as your kind eat a much larger pleco alive. It grabbed it with its pincers (which are very strong) and munched on it.

[oblivion]

my girls's dad put 5 lobsters he caught in a reservoir in a 3ft tank with his adult oscar
now only 1 lobster left and he's lost a pincer
always hiding don't dare to venture out

same for another 3ft tank
he put a few inside the tank with a pair of blood-red parrotfish
they actively attacked the lobsters they can reach
now left zero

[simontay78]

so I guess they are natural enemy then? Both are monsters when they are bigger sized!! haha...gosh..need another tank siah

[oblivion]

the oscar and parrotfish were full grown adults at the time and very territorial
they'll take out anything that ventures in their area, human hands included

so i guess the lobsters no fight

[tetrafreak]

I think their size - relative to each other - matters. For them to co-exist ie not kill each other, they have to be about the same size.

Helps too if the fishes are surface or mid-level dwellers. The benthic or bottom fish will have a hard time.

I have kept a parrotfish and a lobster and both survived. The same for plecos; when the lobsters try to grab them, they just wiggle away.

[simontay78]

I am trying to feed my lobsters with algae wafers, frogs, ghost shrimps, even mini cat fishes but it seems they don't really catch live feeder well...and able to eat only those dead stuff....mess up my lobster tank with high decomposition and foul smell.

Is there any good feeder that is live and can feed the lobster easily? blood worms are too small for them to grab?

Now I got dead frog in the tank...the lobster eat half way...leaving the frog with stomach opened and the insides spreading out to the water!!!

Do advice on what is the best food for lobster?

[oblivion]

my girl's dad used to just throw them bread pieces
they are quite happy to eat it... scuttling out quickly to grab the food before retreating into cover

the surviving fellow in the oscar tank will also take the occasional missed piece of pork or fresh prawn that the oscar doesn't catch in time

[tetrafreak]

i feed mine normal fish food (pellets), pieces of cucumber, papaya, live fish & shrimps (unintentionally), and snails.

they are good for disposing of dead livestock (especially dead pink shrimps). just make sure its not so big it overwhelms them....and the tank.

[simontay78]

Hmmmm Cucumber can't sink ...how do you make it sink properly?
hmmm snails...cool...

[Jungle-mania]

Use a cork screw to hold the cucumber down. But the basic large pellets are much easier thing to feed. Besides lobsters need good filtration to survive, so food with less residue to preferred, also pellets provide more nutrients.

[simontay78]

Cool Thanks!!

[simontay78]

My 10 cm Soon Hock nows have a new "buddy"? No no...Soon Hock #7 is too full eating his other "buddies" to eat this black baby guppy!!

It seems that baby guppy is Soon Hock's favorite food!!