Anyone successful in trapping a SallyLightfoot Crab?

[ElGuappo]

I have a pest trap you can borrow.

[tang daddy]

these crabs are smart you will only have one chance.... I kept mine for 1 year it never hurt any of my corals however it would steal food from the corals mouth.

I wake up and the lights of the tank are off they sometimes appear on the front pane of glass grab a net and quickly trap it against the glass then take your time to pull the guy out watch out cause the first try he climbed right out of the net and jumped back in the tank, slippery buggers!

By the time I caught mine it was about 4in across.

[Carmen]

Thanks El Guappo - I may need to take you up on that. I will try this glass for a couple days and let you know. Did you catch your with it?
It is nearly as big as yours was.

[ElGuappo]

no i destroyed my aquascape to do it.

[Carmen]

UGH! Well, I cannot do that so I need to find something that will catch him.
Carmen

[FitoPharmer]

when i had 3 of these guys to take care of a algae bloom they were great. once the algae was gone they started buggin all the corals. amazingly i removed all of them from my tank by not cleaning one of my koralia's and let it get algae on it. once it was covered i found they would swim up there to eat it and once on the powerhead high up on my glass they didnt swim off just try and get away by climbing around and around the powerhead, made them real easy to catch.

[ElGuappo]

i should have mentioned i didnt even try the trap. bought the trap for a different reason. and also i was already dismantling the tank at that time so it wasnt a big deal.

soryy i have come to realize that i can be more than a little vague in some posts.