CRAB

[shoelevy]

todae was watching my fowlr and saw this bugger eating my starfish!

fortunately it didn't kill it and starfish is still ok

quest is wat kinda crab issit?....y issit so hairy?

[Melvyn Tan]

Maybe you got a Sri Lankan Hairy Crab???

[eques]

this is a pest .

[shoelevy]

yeap

i noe its a pest

will flush it down toilet....

no one noes wat crab this is?

[35Cents]

Its commonly known as the hairy crab in reefing, scientific name i dunno (btw do common people really care about scientific names anymore, much less pronounce it?). Undesirable little critters that took out a few of my scarlet hermits. Total carnivore to me.

[shoelevy]

Its commonly known as the hairy crab in reefing, scientific name i dunno (btw do common people really care about scientific names anymore, much less pronounce it?). Undesirable little critters that took out a few of my scarlet hermits. Total carnivore to me.

wat did u do to it after u caught it?

[35Cents]

Drive to west coast beach and release it.....lol....wat do you think???? of course introduce the pest to Mr. Newater plant... lol

[shoelevy]

u flushed it didn't u........?

[35Cents]

lol... yes i did.

[ervine]

hm.. i just caught 2 crabs today, was wondering what to do with them.. didn't have the heart to kill/flush them so I let them fight it out in my fuge instead...

[k0na_scab]

hey dude how did u manage to get it out of the tank ?

was lookin at my tank and suddely saw dis really UGly crab dat look like yrs ... really hairy ...

[jyilailong]

Is all crab introduce from live rock undesirable? Saw some crab hidding within my live rock. Wonder will they harm my corals?

[hamannbmw]

catch it, smash it, feed fish (dun waste food)

[somebody]

how do you guys catch the crabs? hmm.. they are always within the rocks.

[lightningstrike]

how do you guys catch the crabs? hmm.. they are always within the rocks.

run a search on "crab trap". i am sure u will be able to find some useful info.

[shoelevy]

i see where the crab is

then i take out that piece of live rock cos my tank liverock not much...so i took it out and of cuorse i noted where it was la

then i use chop stick either smash it or force it out to capture alive and post picture

heeh

however...if taking out the liverock is not an option for u then i can't offer animore ideas

[djviper]

i use this to catch my crabs so far i caught 4 liao

use a big piece of dead sps( can use live rocks with lots of visable holes)

place it in the middle of your tank/on live rocks than tie a fishing line to it. Once you see crab on it just pull that rock out and remove the crab

natural way of catching

oh ya try to throw them in ur sump don't flush them.

cheers

[shoelevy]

put them in sump to do wat?

eat detritus???

[somebody]

djviper: hmmm.... shall try to do it, but my tank a bit small to add such rock in the "middle" lehz.. hmm.... sps? hmm... can lemme ya "bait sps" for a while? haha. got 2 in my 2ft tank, wanna get them out before i add more Live rocks that'll make it harder for myself. haha

[Assillian]

Shoelevy,

I saw the same crab that you caught in my tank a few days ago..... a bit hard to remove the LR cos i have corals on that particular LR.

There's a few crab in my tank. Will try djviper method to remove them... or the other crab trap.

[shoelevy]

wa lau...u mean u guys never inspect yr lr b4 putting it in yr tank meh???

to be frank...inspect sometimes also hard to see so wat i did to my fresh live rocks is jet all the holes with strong tap water then the crabs fall out

and even after i do that i still find one crab!!!...so its even more important to inspect b4 throwing them in

actually...if u find the crab tough to catch an alternative is to let them grow big...no place to hide and not so nimble then easy to catch

hehehe

another method is take mineral bottle saw off head and invert it so crab has big hole to go in but small hole to come out

then put a piece of sae dried krill or sth inside

after 2-3 nites crab should be in

[Assillian]

I did inpect all my LR before I put it in. All big size rock and did remove quite a lot of crab and worm.

I didn't blast hole with tap water or pour hot water like some other reefer do. Just manually.

[djviper]

wa pour hot water... that will kill a lot of things

well i forgot to check my 2nd batch of rocks lol so i am catching my crabs now haha quite fun lol got bunch of crabs in my sump haha

[somebody]

yay! caught one. haha. saw it lingering around after lights went out. pounced on it! haha.

take a look pls. is it coral safe. coz i know there's another one back in the tank. haha. who knows how many more are there that i haven't seen. darn...

http://img64.exs.cx/img64/3372/crab007copy8qw.jpg

[somebody]

hmmm.. how come the photo neva come out ah?

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