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![]() ![]() ![]() He still lives in my sump and I feed him scraps every once in a while.. so I can just imagine how big he is now.. ![]() |
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![]() LOL I can never do the sump crab thing, with my luck the damned thing would figure out how to crawl back into the tank. I just send them off to happyland.
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![]() Just curious what method you guys used to catch these things. I have an elusive crab mining tunnels in my live rock which I can't seem to extract.
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![]() In my case I knew which rock he lived in, tore half the tank apart to get the rock out, then used a chopstick to coerce him out. Thats been my only successful method so far, pest traps have done nothing (although I caught my wrasse once, interesting seeing a 5" wrasse inside a 6" pest trap)
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![]() i second posting a how to catch these asshats. i have a black one like in the first picture who has been in the tank forever and its main body is easily the size of a toonie now. i was to send him where there is an abundent of nutrients
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![]() I have one, it's been in the tank for years. I don't worry about it anymore, it hasn't eaten anything important
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![]() instant snacks when you recieve your live rock..LOL
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![]() Just fluke in my case. There was a patch of zoas that I knew he loved to graze on so I always kept an eye on that spot and one day while he wasn't paying attention I snuck up behind him and grabbed him. It also helped that I had a penninsula so I could sneak up from behind him on the opposite side of the tank from where he was facing.
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![]() asshats... haha I like that
I've caught 4 asshats, so far, in a device called the x-terminator. I just put some mysis in the trap and put it near the crab hole when the lights go out. I have caught my own nassarius snails in it a couple times, but overall, I think it works pretty good. I have also snagged a crab out by hand. I just had a lamp on in the room so it was dark enough for them to feel comfortable to come out, and grabbed one. It held onto the rock with suprising strength for a little guy! Bought the x-terminator at www.mops.ca But i've also seen it at the fish stores.
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![]() Quote:
I took the rock out of the tank and I poured some soda water in the hole he was hiding in and he shot out of there like a bullet. They hate carbinated water. ( Bubbles ! ) I didn't have corals on that rock so it didn't do any damage to the rock. Sure had one very unhappy crab though. He became a "sump buddy" hth.
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