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05-01-2004, 12:36 AM
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Another Defective Emerald Crab ARRGGHH!!!
I have valonia. Lots of it. I tear down the tank, scrape the stuff off, but it grows back
 Last year, got an emerald crab to take care of it, but the crab only ate coralline algae  Got another emerald about a month ago. Ate very little valonia, but did find the tasty ornamental macroalgae I cultivate for nitrate removal Removed the ornamental MA to another tank, thinking HAH! he's got to eat valonia now  Well, I was wrong. Caught him hunkered down in my galaxy coral munching away  Removed the coral, getting stung all over my hands, but managed to get him out. Do I take him back to the lfs for some unsuspecting person to buy to eat their corals, or do I rock this sucker? Yes, this is a serious question, BTW  Don't think I'm EVER going to introduce another crab to my tank. EVER, EVER, EVER 
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05-01-2004, 01:41 AM
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Sam, you would take it even if you knew it had developed a taste for corals?
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05-01-2004, 04:26 AM
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I'd take him off your hands.I have been thinking about getting one anyway and I don't keep corals.(at least not yet)
I'd be happy to give you a couple bucks for him.
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05-01-2004, 04:27 AM
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It can't help what it has evolved to eat. This animal was collected from the wild and as such is an unmanaged non-renewable natural resource. In my mind, it would be unethical to "rock" it. I would be willing to take it, but I think the better option would be to return it. I don't really feel that depending on livestock to solve an algae problem is necessarily the best solution either.
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-Quinn Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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#6
05-01-2004, 05:53 AM
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#7
05-01-2004, 12:57 PM
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You can pick it up this weekend if you like. PM me for address, phone, etc.
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05-02-2004, 08:32 PM
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Re: Another Defective Emerald Crab ARRGGHH!!!
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In his defence, It is pretty.
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05-02-2004, 08:53 PM
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Re: Another Defective Emerald Crab ARRGGHH!!!
Glad you like it, Tony. Good to meet aother fellow reefkeeper
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