Arrow crab and blue ribbon eel?

t to the maxx2

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I was wondering if you guys think my blue ribbon eel would eat the coolest animal I have ever seen, the arrow crab. I wanted one before, but I feared it would eat the clownfish and royal gramma, but since the eel took care of those already, I have nothing to worry about! LOL. Do you think the eel will eat the crab though?
 
I noted the ghost eel going after fish primarily.

This is a kind of critter whose food-response seems to be visually triggered---ie, he sees it, it moves, it WOULD fit within his jaws [he can't bite off or chew] and go down his throat, and therefore his appetite turns on like flipping a switch. This is imho why they're hard to feed, because that food-response is size/motion triggered.
The crab might actually be [counting the legs] a non-trigger, because of overall size. A lot of critters have defensive postures that make them go oversize for the visually-triggered predators in their vicinity. Hard to say. Depends, probably, on getting a larger crab.
The gape of a ribbon eel is huge, relative to head size. But if you get a fish that somehow exceeds it, that fish should be safe.

Your eel is probably quite nicely settled in: the big problem with feeding these fish is simply that you can't get them to eat what doesn't move. But you may have to look at mollies soon.
 
I bought an arrow. It is doing well, so far. He got in a fight with the coral banded shrimp, but both are fine. Lets hope all will stay well
 
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