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The Jerk... caught red handed

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Heathd
, 06-03-2011 at 10:43 AM (4398 Views)
Well, after wondering what has been eating snails eggs, hermits, snails, and coral... I finally found out what it was. Fiancee called me while I was at work to let me know that one my my mithrax crabs looked really funny and was eating a snail. I followed up with a series of questions and figured I had a gorilla crab.

Its not a gorilla crab, but none the less, a nasty one that needed to be removed. He put up a good fight, and now he resided in my sump. Its beyond me how he got in my tank, but it was probably when I was new to the hobby and not dipping my corals or qt'ing new lr, etc. That was a while ago, so he probably started out small...

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  1. gist41980's Avatar
    So how did you catch him?
  2. melev's Avatar
    He offered him a tall drink, it seems. hehe
  3. DJ in WV's Avatar
    One of the thing I love about this hobby is the wheres wado aspect of finding thing good and bad that just seem to pop up over time. Nice hunting you sure bagged a nasty looking critter
  4. Heathd's Avatar
    Well, I pulled a majority of my rock and corals. Then, I chased him with tweezers, which seemed moot because he was much faster then me.

    So, I got a long bamboo skewer, cut the sharp end off, and then pinned his carapice down with the skewer and pushed him into the glass. Then, I took the tweezers, grabbed him, and shoved him in the glass.
  5. gerbilbox's Avatar
    A gorgeous looking crab, too bad it was causing problems.
  6. Convict27's Avatar
    I just pulled one out of my tank today as well. They are all over the place here in Okinawa so when you get LR straight from the ocean you get some cool hitchhikers. He is now happily residing in my sump.
  7. customcolor's Avatar
    i had that same problem a few years ago with getting out a Stone Crab! i got it with other matrix crabs! i thought it was funny when it burrowed it self into the sand when i put it in!?

    PITA!