Unknown crab hitch hiker - scary!

Nippy

New Member
Another question - I have a 2 month old 24g nanocube with 1 shrimp/7 hermits and mushrooms and polyp's. Who knows about crabs? Last night in one of the caves in the live rock we saw a crab, this wasnt as tiny as the others ive seen, probably 1/2 inch across, quite chunky, with stripy blue and blacklegs, but big claws which he snapped at a hermit with - and the hermit threw himself off the rock!
I tried putting a jamjar in there with a bit of shrimp underneath the entrance to tempt him out, and would you believe the peppermint shrimp and 2 hermits scrambled up and got in the jar and ate the lot, totally ruining my chance to catch the crab who had come forward but then went back in. Any advice on this one greatfully received!
 

Trogdor

New Member
want to have a crab fight? :lol: :mrgreen:

In the red corner weighing in at 7 grams...and undefeated champion King Crab!!!!




:matrixf

:award:

btw, that's an astraea shell that he's in. I bet he spans 1.5"-2" when he has his legs all kicked out. He really looks like a spider in my tank. As for catching yours, patience in a virtue. Eventually he will take the bait or maybe you can try at night.
 
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