Stupid anemone crab (good awareness for future reference)

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Originally Posted by Carmen

Mine did the same thing. Pestered the bubble tip til it moved all over the place and then looked like it would die. REMOVE it if it reappears and I would look under that rock near the anemone cuz it's probably still there! My anemone has since recovered so there is hope if you get rid of the crab. Even moving the crab to another area of the tank did not work. I tink they are best hosting in large carpet anemones.

Good luck!

*sigh* Let me add this to my list of "Things I wished I had of known before hand"

The rock it is on is a supporting base rock that is holding up several other rocks, which also happens to be one rocks my dwarf golden moray eel likes to live in. So unfortunately I would have to move a heck of a lot of rock, and potentially take away a home (heaven knows I'd never get it back in the same spot) to get at the rbta. Which honestly I'm not going to do. Really wishing I removed the crab when they were on the loose rock at the top of the tank It's hard to tell but right now I don't see the crab, but he definitely could still be there as I can't really see the bottom and part of the one side of the RBTA. If I see the crab I'll try to remove/rehome him.

Thanks for the info. hopefully we can save someone else from making this mistake.