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Old 10-24-2010, 08:19 PM
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I finally caught a hitch hiker coral eating crab I've been after for a few years.....yeah! He's grown pretty big at the expense of many corals and now lives in my sump and is welcome to eat all the detritus it wants.
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Ugly bugger. I never knew there were crabs that eat coral. Looking at his claws I would guess he probably would go after other stuff as well!?!?
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Ugly bugger. I never knew there were crabs that eat coral. Looking at his claws I would guess he probably would go after other stuff as well!?!?

Crabs are very opportunistic feeders. They will eat pretty much anything they can get their claws on. I will never keep another crab in my tanks, including the cute little Hermits.
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Ugh, coral eating crabs are the worst!! Congrats on catching him, I wouldn't have been so nice as to his final home
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hey, nice catch there Greg...did you do a little happy dance?...how the heck did you manage to catch him in that beast of a tank of yours?
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