Emerald Crab theif!!!

[Lance]

Originally Posted by muck

Lance don't like CRABS!!!

Never met a crab I liked. They are all killers sooner or later. Even the cute little hermits: They'll kill your snails and start on coral polyps. The only good crab is the one floating in lemon garlic butter.

[trinac]

Just had the BEST crab from Costco the other day... YUM!

[kevNnic]

well yesterday he really ****ed me off. Over the past week my coral beauty has lost a decent amount of her fin, and im pretty sure i found the culprit. For some odd reason she likes that crabs and follows it around the tank, and the Em crab was grabbing onto her yesterday pretty good, but she didn't seem to mind, which i thought was weird, I had to put my hand into the tank to make the coral beauty leave the em crab.

WTF? why would she do this?

[trinac]

So bizarre about the angel / crab pair!

I feed my shrimp some mysis everyday. My crab gets fed every couple days too. I give it a piece of the dehydrated algae sheets, it will take it right from my hand too! I can't say for sure, but I think the inverts are more behaved because they have no lack of food.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by kevNnic

well yesterday he really ****ed me off. Over the past week my coral beauty has lost a decent amount of her fin, and im pretty sure i found the culprit. For some odd reason she likes that crabs and follows it around the tank, and the Em crab was grabbing onto her yesterday pretty good, but she didn't seem to mind, which i thought was weird, I had to put my hand into the tank to make the coral beauty leave the em crab.

WTF? why would she do this?

I used to date a girl that was a lot like that...

there is no accounting for tastes...

[Lance]

See, I told you to KILL IT!!!!

[kevNnic]

i will be giving him one more chance! Than i will find him a new home. I would feel bad killing it.

[trinac]

I would either take it back to the store or give it to someone you know who has a mantis shrimp. At Ocean City, in Calgary, the guy will take any hitchhiker crabs to feed to the mantis shrimp in the store.

[kevNnic]

haha my hermit crabs are savages. I will be keep an eye on my emerald from now on, He seemed peaced lurking in the shadows but now i know he is up to no good. lol


edit: i perfer my crab with a nice side of steak as well! dont get my wrong.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by kevNnic

haha my hermit crabs are savages. I will be keep an eye on my emerald from now on, He seemed peaced lurking in the shadows but now i know he is up to no good. lol


edit: i perfer my crab with a nice side of steak as well! dont get my wrong.

I had a serious bubble algae breakout some time back so I got an Emerald. Within 3 days it was turning its nose up at the bubble algae and happily snacking on my zoas.