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Old 12-05-2013, 06:18 PM
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Default Finally found you...Eh eh !!

So snails, crabs and Chromis kept on disappearing over time... could never figure out who was doing it and never found any bodies.

Then on Sunday night I was changing the filter sock in the sump when I saw this large brown fuzzy claw sticking out of the rock, ran to the kitchen to get the flashlight then I found this dude

He must have been in the tank for a long time since I have not added any new corals or live rock in over 4 years.

I was thinking about setting up a trap but there was no way I was going to loose sight of him... with over 160 lbs of rock in there I didn't want to chance it.

Removing it was a lot of work since the little bugger was hiding pretty deep in one of the base rock. Took the rock out of the tank and tried pocking it out with a bent coat hanger. Nope, that didn't work..he kept on going deeper and deeper into the rock...then i remembered a post about someone flushing out their rock with some soda water. I didn't have any soda on hand but I sure love Gin so decided to try this with Tonic.

Tadaaaa... He almost ran to the front door

What a creepy bugger, he was the size of a twoonie.

It's almost been a week now and I noticed that my clown fishes seem less nervous when light is out.

Just wanted to share his fugliness...lol

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