How to safely get a porcelain crab out of a rock

tlhood · #1 03-13-2014, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by hillegom

put some food in a deep glass jar and lean it up close to his hideout.
As well as filter feeding they also are carnivores. Hopefully, the crab will enter the glass jar/drinking glass, and then be unable to climb out of the smooth sides
GL

Alright I will try that. Fingers crossed!

Delphinus · #2 03-13-2014, 08:54 PM

Can you post a picture of these starfish legs stretching out that far?

tlhood · #3 03-13-2014, 09:15 PM

I certainly can try, I will take a picture when the lights turn on again. There is a whole clump of legs sticking out of one cave right now, but they aren't stretched as far as they can go. I'll post a picture later this afternoon. Some of them are white with black knobs, and some of them are red with faint black knobs. I assume its a starfish by the way it extends, grabs on to something (usually Mysis) and then pulls it back towards the cave. It could be some creepy mutant sea monster, all I've ever seen are 'legs'.

And my Crab-trap jar is in the way right now, though my porcelain crab seems uninterested in the goodies in it.

tlhood · #4 03-13-2014, 10:43 PM

Here is a picture of the shorter red leg things (there's easily 10 of them), you can barely see the white ones (that are super stretchy).

Unfortunately the rock is at an angle, I don't have a waterproof camera, and my lens doesn't let me get in very close.