Can lobsters be kept as part of your salt-water aquarium?

Question

I'd like to, someday, have a salt-water aquarium with a variety of fish and other sea life. Could a live lobster, like from the meat counter at the store, be successfully kept in there just like other salt-water critters?

Answer 1

They can but NOT the ones you'd get at a seafood place. These are often from cold water (most saltwater aquaria are tropical) and they are MUCH too big. You can buy small varieties that are suited to tank life if you keep them with compatible other creatures. Lobsters are aggressive and will eat docile or slow moving fish, shrimp and other little people. I'll never forget coming in to work one day and finding the Hawaian blue lobster waving half of a rare fish in his big claw. A very expensive meal!

Answer 2

you could probably keep one alive in a salt water tank but make sure the tank is large enough and tall enough so it wont eat all the fishes that was originally in there. you could probably have more luck going to buy the smaller lobsters that were meant for the aquarium business like the blue lobster, red lobster, and etc... just go to a pet store and ask them if they have it theyll tell you.

Answer 3

Yeah, if you tank is big enough (I wouldn't put a lobster in anything under 10gallons) and if you didn't mind losing all of your other fish, which the lobster will eat :)

Answer 4

you mustn't could graceful no longer ordinary in any respect. in case you have a drugs dropper/syringe, which will help with achieving the area too. i might say that swishing two times an afternoon could be sufficient.

Answer 5

no lobsters are made to eat, not to be kept as a pet

Answer 6

it would have to be kept in a separate, much large tank. probably a 25 gallon tank at minimum

Answer 7

can of course