Banditos....

[Puff]

Originally Posted by ElGuappo

i have added nothing in the past to have any hitchers. i thought at first it was my PomPom crab since he lost an anem, butr its not as he is not carrying them. as for the mushies i found it and it did let loose due to flow. still no idea where the 3-6 zoas have gone. i have not seen any hitchers aside from a couple of left handed crabs. i have been wondedring if something has been in there since the get go as i have also come to realize in the last couple weeks is that one of my porcelin crabs is missing his left claw. (maybe the car theif got it?????). \

i spend wayyyyy to much time staring into the blue abyss that is my tank and have never seen anything that i could even imagine doing this. would it be worht my time to set up a trap juswt to see if there is something in there that shouldnt be.

Thanks in advance.

at one point i noticed things declining and hadnt added anything that would have introduced a hitchhiker.

turned out it was a gorilla crab that had been hiding in my tank from when i first added liverock. once i caught it the problems went away.

[Chowder]

Here are a few pictures I got of the internet. Mine had a tan shell with large black spots that made it blend into it's surroundings. These are pictures of gorilla crabs.


I find new crabs all the time. Most of them have come in real small .You will usually notice them after they have grown bigger and easier to see.
Chris