Setting traps for crabs

[Beverly]

The only crabs I like are filter feeding crabs. The rest gotta go

Videos of crabs we've caught in our old tanks....

Caught in our 37g - Red Eyed Crab
April 8, 2006
(320 x 240 pixels, 3.6 MB, :49 minutes)

Caught in our 37g - One Black Claw Crab
April 14, 2006
(320 x 240 pixels, 7.8 MB, 1:38 minutes)

Caught in our 67g - Mystery Crab
April 13, 2006
(320 x 240 pixels, 9.7 MB, 2:02 minutes)

Caught in our 120g - White-Backed Brown Crab
April 22, 2006
(320 x 240 pixels, 21.3 MB, 4:30 minutes)

Anyway, the best ways to catch crabs, IME, are....

1) Find out which rock they're in, remove the rock and use long poking sticks, thin screwdrivers or simliar implements to get them out of their hiding places.

2) Just before lights out, put a piece of bait in the bottom of a glass, prop the glass at a 45 degree angle against a rock near the crab's hideout is, and hopefully in the morning you've caught a crab.

I have crab catching 2 or 3 videos where we discovered a really strange worm in our 120g. Will post them if you like, but they are mainly geared toward the weird worm.