It's Ok in a reef but it will eat your shrimps and crabs. Also they hide most of the time and only come out at night or when hungry. Where in Iowa are you from. I was raised in cedar Rapids and now live in Portland OR.
Right now I live up in Storm Lake Iowa, but in the next couple of months will be moving to Omaha to go to grad school Anyway thanks for the input, I don't want to loose my shrimp so looks like back to the drawing board to figure out what my final fish will be.
I have a GHOST RIBBON EEL
Everybody says they are hard to feed but mine eats silversides every other day.
I have shrimp and crabs and he has not ate them
Maybe this could be an option for you !