eletrocute a tank to kill a crab?

[snorvich]

Steve, I have a feeling that reef thief was typing with sarcasm font.
:lol:

Hopefully. I need to get more perspicacious glasses

 

[Zatoichi]

I'm a fan of the fresh water swap idea, drain and refill with fresh and let it sit for a few days, often the living critters will shoot out of the rock and you might not even have to completely fill the tank to find and remove the offending animals.

This will be the least work and unlikely to leave harmful residues although all that death will definitely trigger a cycling event and possibly a spike in other bad byproducts

The worm might be your huckleberry, those things can be quite long and destructive especially if it's that fat but once again we don't know

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[ericarenee]

All of these Anti Crab people make me CRY..
BOOHOOOO SAVE THE CRABS .. SAVE THE CRABS..


How about getting a Tall Glass Jar and glue a mirror in the bottom of it.. Of the Night time this Terror Crab will see the other crab (his reflection) Climb in to kill the Intruder and get stuck.... Then send the cute widdle crabbie to me so he can live out the rest of his life in my Refugium......

 

[mickey204]

I always preferred the stab with a long black screw driver option.

Wife comes downstairs at 3 in the morning on a workday. "What the heck are you doing"

I look at her, blinding her with my headlamp while holding a long black flathead screwdriver.

"I'm hunting crabs, duh."

 

[fuzzyfred101]

I always preferred the stab with a long black screw driver option.

Wife comes downstairs at 3 in the morning on a workday. "What the heck are you doing"

I look at her, blinding her with my headlamp while holding a long black flathead screwdriver.

"I'm hunting crabs, duh."

Ha "duh" :lolspin:

 

[sheorchid]

catching crabs

catching crabs

I had a terrible time with an emerald crab. I put a smelly piece of shrimp in
a 4 inch tall jelly jar and placed in leaning near the live rock so it would climb in to eat the shrimp but couldn't climb out of the jar. When the lights went out, the
crab was caught within 30 minutes. I removed it and took it to my LFS store.
Try that!

 

[salty joe]

A few weeks ago, I set a glass cylinder vase about 3"diameter and 8 or 9 inches tall with a piece of FRP with a 1 1/2" hole drilled in it siliconed to the top. The shrimp I used for bait was eaten on the fourth night. So, I cut a piece of 1/4" Styrofoam about 2" diameter and folded/curved/bent it to get it through the 1 1/2" hole and inside the trap for a one way door.

Since then, I've had no takers. I burned a few holes in the Styrofoam to let the smell out.

I have reagent grade ammonium chloride but haven't been able to bring myself to nuke the tank.

 

[rajilnaja]

A few weeks ago, I set a glass cylinder vase about 3"diameter and 8 or 9 inches tall with a piece of FRP with a 1 1/2" hole drilled in it siliconed to the top. The shrimp I used for bait was eaten on the fourth night. So, I cut a piece of 1/4" Styrofoam about 2" diameter and folded/curved/bent it to get it through the 1 1/2" hole and inside the trap for a one way door.

Since then, I've had no takers. I burned a few holes in the Styrofoam to let the smell out.

I have reagent grade ammonium chloride but haven't been able to bring myself to nuke the tank.

Wow the struggle is real. Cant belive it is still giving you trouble. Best of luck!

 

[TokiHacker]

Getting crab out of the tank is easy. Not enough information regarding the worm to condemn all living things in the tank to death.
It seem that you are hellbent on nuking the tank. Just do it and get it over with. I get a little irritated reading your posts in this thread and likely will not add anything here again.
They way you are thinking. Why not just start the tank with dead rock and only add whatever life you know 100% safe. Nuke the tank is easy. Just replace the salt water with fresh water for several days. You better do this to all your life rock because there are lots of worms you cannot ID in the rock in the trash can. Most likely it will include the same larger worms in the LR in there too.
Certainly this thread does not belong in the Advanced Topics forum.

100% truth...