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Old 04-14-2010, 02:02 AM
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Remove all crabs are bad.
Crabs are opportunity scavengers it will be fine if you feed lots but when you don't what will it eat???
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Old 04-14-2010, 02:15 AM
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Remove all crabs are bad.
Crabs are opportunity scavengers it will be fine if you feed lots but when you don't what will it eat???
+1. Send him to Browntown. I have one of those little bastages in my tank right now. When I catch him, he's going flush.
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Old 04-14-2010, 02:22 AM
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+1. Send him to Browntown. I have one of those little bastages in my tank right now. When I catch him, he's going flush.
Send him to me. We love those little underwater Mechas!
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Oh, c'mon now, don't be so mean!!! It's a live critter that has the right to live. I found one, pretty similar, in my tank and put it in my sump with some pieces of LR and he seems pretty content. I feed him 2 little shrimp pellets every 3-4 days and he just extends his claws out from under the LR and grabs the pellets. He comes out at night and wanders around. Has been in the sump for the last 3 months...
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Old 07-24-2010, 02:08 AM
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Oh, c'mon now, don't be so mean!!! It's a live critter that has the right to live. I found one, pretty similar, in my tank and put it in my sump with some pieces of LR and he seems pretty content. I feed him 2 little shrimp pellets every 3-4 days and he just extends his claws out from under the LR and grabs the pellets. He comes out at night and wanders around. Has been in the sump for the last 3 months...

Hehe. If it's not so bad why is it in your sump?
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Old 07-24-2010, 02:10 AM
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Yea things have a right to live. Ok... well if it kills a $50 fish who is gonna cry? Not the crab. I lost a couple fish to a red eye crab then he got the axe.
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Looks like a mithrax to me, but can't be absolutely sure until I see the cups on the end of the pincers. I have at least two good sized mithrax in my 77 and they've been great scavengers... without bothering any of my other 'desireable' critters. I have no plans on catching them until I've seen some damage and there hasn't been any since I bought my system used. I assume they were hitchhikers as well. I've seen them scrape algae, coralline off the rocks and glass. Generally quite wary and are spooked fairly easily by anything approaching them.
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Old 07-24-2010, 03:19 AM
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I saw a crab the other night in my system, my tank is only about 4 months old and i bought all brand new live rock from oc and i did a soda water dip on it all and about 4 crabs jumped out, but i lost one of the chromis in my school im not saying the crabs the one that did it, but I can only assume.
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