Finally found you...Eh eh !!

[belzebuth]

So snails, crabs and Chromis kept on disappearing over time... could never figure out who was doing it and never found any bodies.

Then on Sunday night I was changing the filter sock in the sump when I saw this large brown fuzzy claw sticking out of the rock, ran to the kitchen to get the flashlight then I found this dude

He must have been in the tank for a long time since I have not added any new corals or live rock in over 4 years.

I was thinking about setting up a trap but there was no way I was going to loose sight of him... with over 160 lbs of rock in there I didn't want to chance it.

Removing it was a lot of work since the little bugger was hiding pretty deep in one of the base rock. Took the rock out of the tank and tried pocking it out with a bent coat hanger. Nope, that didn't work..he kept on going deeper and deeper into the rock...then i remembered a post about someone flushing out their rock with some soda water. I didn't have any soda on hand but I sure love Gin so decided to try this with Tonic.

Tadaaaa... He almost ran to the front door

What a creepy bugger, he was the size of a twoonie.

It's almost been a week now and I noticed that my clown fishes seem less nervous when light is out.

Just wanted to share his fugliness...lol