Now this is a big hitchhiker...

Blue World Aquariums · #1 06-18-2010, 09:24 PM

Can anybody top this one?

christyf5 · #2 06-18-2010, 09:30 PM

Wow that is a big one, here's mine from a number of years ago. He thought corals were pretty tasty.

kien · #3 06-18-2010, 09:49 PM

He still lives in my sump and I feed him scraps every once in a while.. so I can just imagine how big he is now..

christyf5 · #4 06-18-2010, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

He still lives in my sump and I feed him scraps every once in a while.. so I can just imagine how big he is now..

LOL I can never do the sump crab thing, with my luck the damned thing would figure out how to crawl back into the tank. I just send them off to happyland.

SAMSHUNG · #5 06-18-2010, 09:58 PM

Just curious what method you guys used to catch these things. I have an elusive crab mining tunnels in my live rock which I can't seem to extract.

christyf5 · #6 06-18-2010, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SAMSHUNG

Just curious what method you guys used to catch these things. I have an elusive crab mining tunnels in my live rock which I can't seem to extract.

In my case I knew which rock he lived in, tore half the tank apart to get the rock out, then used a chopstick to coerce him out. Thats been my only successful method so far, pest traps have done nothing (although I caught my wrasse once, interesting seeing a 5" wrasse inside a 6" pest trap)

lorenz0 · #7 06-18-2010, 10:42 PM

i second posting a how to catch these asshats. i have a black one like in the first picture who has been in the tank forever and its main body is easily the size of a toonie now. i was to send him where there is an abundent of nutrients

Aquattro · #8 06-18-2010, 10:50 PM

I have one, it's been in the tank for years. I don't worry about it anymore, it hasn't eaten anything important

#9 06-19-2010, 12:18 AM

instant snacks when you recieve your live rock..LOL

kien · #10 06-19-2010, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by lorenz0

i second posting a how to catch these asshats. i have a black one like in the first picture who has been in the tank forever and its main body is easily the size of a toonie now. i was to send him where there is an abundent of nutrients

Just fluke in my case. There was a patch of zoas that I knew he loved to graze on so I always kept an eye on that spot and one day while he wasn't paying attention I snuck up behind him and grabbed him. It also helped that I had a penninsula so I could sneak up from behind him on the opposite side of the tank from where he was facing.