new creature in my tank (uninvited)

Ross · #1 10-29-2009, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Be prepared for frustration the likes of which you've never seen! I tried traps and one night got so fed up I sat there with a big knife in the water just above his rock for what must have been more than an hour. Left a piece of shrimp just under the knife. Stabbing a glass tank with a knife. SMART...

LOL thats too funny!

Ryan Joel Smith · #2 10-29-2009, 05:55 PM

Ok well i guess i should take my hand out of the tank now and put the knife away.....phew, my hand was getting pretty wrinkly. Are there any fish that hunt crabs that wonteat my corals?

Marlin65 · #3 10-29-2009, 06:27 PM

Octopus but that will give you a whole other set of problems.
I have had good luck with the jar try that first or try to pull out the one rock he is hiding in.

scub steve · #4 10-29-2009, 07:55 PM

pull the rock he is in out of the tank and put it in sump

Ryan Joel Smith · #5 10-30-2009, 03:48 PM

Update*

So i went home yesterday to see that my timer on my lights was not working so the lights were off for a 24 hour period which nothing in my tank was too pleased with.

BUT i noticed the top fin on my large female clown was bitten off. as well my much smaller male clown had one of his fins nipped as well.......Thinking this seems to be more like the two fish fighting as they are new to eachother then the crab doing the damage. Any thoughts?

RCFA · #6 10-30-2009, 05:41 PM

When I first introduced my maroons, there was some fin nips for sure so this may be the case with yours, but I also had a gorilla crab. I noticed large sores on the sides of a couple of fish only to have the injured fish disappear the next night before I figured out what was going on. I did the whole trap thing, and it work surprisingly well. I put a shrimp tied to a piece of rubble in a plastic water bottle that had the end cut off and put it near the crab rock. Waited patiently with a red filtered flashlight and a net in the tank until about 12:30am and saw the crab venture out towards the bottle. I couldn't wait any longer so I shoved him the rest of the way into the bottle with the net. Gave him away to a mantis owner!