Flashlight Finds Big Freakin' Crab

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Beverly

I got the flashlight out again to have a look at our 42 hex. Didn't have to look long to find another night critter. This time it's a two-jellybean sized grey crab hiding in the hole where the lost fish used to hang out.

He'd be the kind of guy I'd put in our 2.5 gal if I could catch him.

Praise the flashlight and pass the critter catcher

Caught the crab last night with the two flashlight approach and a pair of tweezers while he was running around on the sandbed. Then into the 2.5 gal he went.

Think I might rearrange the rock in the 7 gal and put a small piece of rock from it into the 2.5 to give the crab a hiding place. He sure looks lonely in there with only an astrea and a very small clump of green polyps for company.

Not knowing if he's the culprit who ate our fish or not makes it pretty hard to add a fish to this tank at some point in the future, or anything else for that matter, like peppermint shrimp. Maybe the 2.5 will be our Big Freakin' Crab reef