learned a lesson on reef safe crabs:-)

[containerman1]

Well I bought a few cool looking Halloween hermit crabs last week. They were pretty big and cool looking so I thought I would get a few and add in my reef tank. I noticed after a couple days my alvepora was looking smaller and I thought hum not really noticing anything close to it. The next night I happen to check on tank and there's 2 Halloween hermits eating away. They have finished off about half the size of a softball. Needless to say I pulled them out and they are in my sump now and they are going over to a new home tomorrow

 

[saltyvixen]

What?!? No way! I thought they were reef safe, i have been wanting them soo bad. Wow, that sucks.

 

[ringo®]

No crab is 100% reef safe......always a bad apple in the bunch somewhere.

 

[tbub1221]

That sucks , I bought one last week as well , I thought it would go well with my scarlets , now I'm wondering if he is snacking. The only thing i noticed missing this week was a green fuzzy mushroom on a piece of rubble but I was hoping it would show back up (i have a few landscapers)
They are very cool looking critters awfully slow moving , I'll be on watch now.

 

[containerman1]

SaltyVixen;897762 wrote: What?!? No way! I thought they were reef safe, i have been wanting them soo bad. Wow, that sucks.

They are really cool looking

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Ringo®;897776 wrote: No crab is 100% reef safe......always a bad apple in the bunch somewhere.

+1
Yep 3 bad in my group

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Ringo®;897776 wrote: No crab is 100% reef safe......always a bad apple in the bunch somewhere.

Tbub1221;897780 wrote: That sucks , I bought one last week as well , I thought it would go well with my scarlets , now I'm wondering if he is snacking. The only thing i noticed missing this week was a green fuzzy mushroom on a piece of rubble but I was hoping it would show back up (i have a few landscapers)
They are very cool looking critters awfully slow moving , I'll be on watch now.

I bought 3 big Halloween and 3 big Scarlets they look cool and the Scarlets are doing ok but the Halloween are rough These were the Carribean large

 

[containerman1]

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[tbub1221]

Yep got mine at nemo's a week ago .
Do yours move really slow , mine moves a whole 10" in a good day it seems unless he is a midnight wanderer

 

[containerman1]

That's we're I bought mine to : )
I looked at night and that's when they munched midnight snacks

 

[tbub1221]

containerman1;897789 wrote: That's we're I bought mine to : )
I looked at night and that's when they munched midnight snacks

Sighh...
This didn't make me feel better, I'll be spying with the flashlight .

 

[fishlips]

What about emerald crabs.Has anyone had them do any damage to corals.Was thinking about using them for BA

 

[reeferman]

emeralds are mithrax.i had a true emerald[red spots in elbows]that would crush the ends of my setosa and eat it,just like Rusty described in his thread.

 

[jeffmuse]

Fishlips;897828 wrote: What about emerald crabs.Has anyone had them do any damage to corals.Was thinking about using them for BA

Emeralds have been pretty reef safe in my experience with them... if they have ever eaten any corals, I've never noticed/ seen them do it.

 

[fishlips]

Wow,Im going to try putting 2 in my 180.Ah.....I think:unsure:

 

[capthutch]

Had a true peppermint shrimp eat a Duncan coral. I would run him off and he would jump right back on it! None of my other peppermints have touched anything in my other two tanks!