emerald crab living with anemone

[smartwater101]

I have an emerald crab that has recently been squeezing in between the anemone and the rock. It does this to both my large green bta and small red bta.

He does pick at the green bta from time to time though. I've noticed him pinching the tips and eating the small portion he pulls off. Should I be concerned about thus? I would assume the anemone doesn't appreciate it.

 

[t4zalews]

i would remove him if he is pinching and eating the tips of the anemone

 

[smartwater101]

too bad. I really like it. Guess it'll be living in my refugium indefinitely...

Maybe a porcelain crab or even an anemone porcelain is a better way to go.

 

[t4zalews]

emerald crabs should be eating algae and debris off of the rocks, when they turn to bad things to eat they should be removed and replaced. I have 4 and they rock for clean up. If you want an anemone crab, porcelains are awesome

 

[kevinrf]

I recently purchased a emerald. He hides under my BTA & sometimes latches onto my leather, lol.

 

[baldbean]

My emerald cleans my BTA, its pretty cool. The nem doesn't close up either, its like it knows it wont be hurt.

 

[Frank@wall]

Its probably cleaning it

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[seamonkey84]

My emerald use to stay on my Cali tort during the day. They find where they feel safest during the day then roam around at night. But I'd you see damaged tentacles then you should remove that crab, maybe try another that hopefully doesn't have the same habbit.

 

[Mekanic]

my emerald hides under my RBTA all the time, nether the RBTA or my maroon clown that hosts it seems to mind heh.

 

[brchapm]

Stupid question and don't mean to hijack, but will wrasses, (Melanarus), mess with porcelain crabs?

 

[kyro.blaze]

Awwww....my hulk crab is doing the same...time to get a new one...

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[kyro.blaze]

This is why we call him hulk crab...hes a massive beast! Biggest Emerald I've ever seen!

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[kyro.blaze]

Uhg.....my Hulk Crab is starting to terrorize his tank mates...guess hes gotta go...

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[Dkuhlmann]

Kyroblaze, yeah that dude needs to be SUMPPED! Mine is about twice the size of that one now and has been in the sump for about a year. I really need to get a few small ones as I've got an outbreak of bubble algae. But I hated going through catching that SOB. From the looks of it you won't have any trouble catching that one.