Crab trab only caught hermits... how?

[ervine]

Hi guys,

I laid out a crab trap yesterday hoping to capture what I believe is the cause for some of my fish disappearances... crabs..

However, today I only managed to find 2 of my hermits inside the trap when I know for sure that there are other critters out there (i've seen them!)...

How? Should I lay it out again and wait?

[xiggie]

move the hermits into your sump and lay trap again

[ervine]

Wah.. going to be quite hard to hunt down all of them.. ok ok I go see how.. thanks!

[FuEl]

I've tried trapping potential evil crabs..about 1-2 of them in my tank..so far unsuccessful..only trapped my 'pom pom' crabs.

[Zero Oxygen]

hihihi can kindly show/explain how you design the trap ah

hehehe till now havent catch that damn crab in my tank

[Siput]

Somewhat , and sorry for hijacking, but are crabs necessarily bad? saw a couple of small ones in my tank plus one about 1 cm with an evil looking claw...should I get rid of them?

[Zero Oxygen]

hehehe crab i donno but i find lobster is

at night silently took out a few fishes and clean shrimp

[ervine]

not ALL crabs are bad.. but some are... and since I have my scavenging hermits, I don't need the other "good" crabs, so I rather get rid of all of them and leave just the hermits... so far still no luck

[Razo]

Hi guys,

I laid out a crab trap yesterday hoping to capture what I believe is the cause for some of my fish disappearances... crabs..

However, today I only managed to find 2 of my hermits inside the trap when I know for sure that there are other critters out there (i've seen them!)...

How? Should I lay it out again and wait?

try placing the traps near the place where you saw the crabs before.

[hbpencil]

Try to tie two rubber bands across the openings like a cross to prevent the hermit crab from climbing in (restrict the bottle openings).

Hope this helps.

[ervine]

Try to tie two rubber bands across the openings like a cross to prevent the hermit crab from climbing in (restrict the bottle openings).

Hope this helps.

Huh but my hermits are smaller than the crabs I saw leh.. dwarf hermits...

[giantbicycle]

haha.i just saw about more then 10 crabs(20cent size) and i set a trap few days ago...only manage to catch 1 crab...got frusted and took out all my 20Kg of LR and de hypo salinatly ...all crawl..out including more then 5 worms..now tank..bare no Lr..all still soaking in hypo ...water. and i took the chance to restacked my rock too

[ervine]

wah that's too extreme for me man

[giantbicycle]

haha...yar..cous your tank only a few crabs spotted right..so no need..save the hassle..