Finally caught the crab eating my corals!

[Allin14]

Over the past few months I have noticed something tearing up my corals and clams, and when I came home tonight I saw this $%#& Crab eating my yellow toadstool!! It took a little while but I caught him. Anyone seen anything like it?

 

[dc_909]

Banish that little sh*t

 

[Allin14]

For Sure!! that little bastard is now all alone in the sump

 

[HowardW]

Looks like a stone crab......very nasty and destructive.

 

[cfarrow2]

eat him to absorb all his powers!

 

[kfowler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9852264#post9852264 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cfarrow2
eat him to absorb all his powers!

I thought you had to sacrifice it to the porcelain god at high tide. Have I been doing it wrong?

 

[cfarrow2]

depends how fickle your gods are. and how much garlic butter is on hand

 

[snulma1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9852289#post9852289 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kfowler
I thought you had to sacrifice it to the porcelain god at high tide. Have I been doing it wrong?

I'm sorry, I don't mean to do this, but after these few lines, all I can picture is this movie.

Whoa! Wolfman's got Nards!

 

[jman77]

"eat him to absorb all his powers!"

hahahahahahaha ...now that's funny. .. lol

I say grow him out in the sump...then eat him with garlic butter ....yummmm

 

[sabazerehi]

may i ask how you caught the crab? i'm having the same problem.

 

[kfowler]

My fishing expedition a week ago. Gorila crab. Killed my firefish.

 

[Dingo Dog]

They're acro crabs. I got one when I bought an acrophora online and was told it would be okay and wouldn't harm the coral. It stayed within the confines of the coral for protection from the fish. I thought it was one of those relationships like a clown fish and BTA. Within about a 2 - 3 week period of time the coral suddenly started turning white one branch at a time till it was all dead. I'm still not sure if the crab killed the coral or not. I never saw the crab doing any damage to the coral but that doesn't explain why the coral started dying either.

 

[mikeosoft]

The pictures of the crabs that have been posted do not look like any acro crab I have seen. I have acro colonies with 'acro crabs' in them and they are completely benificial. There are many other crabs that can be very destructive.

 

[Allin14]

Crab

Crab

From everyones opinion it seems to be a a stone crab,and I just got lucky when I cought him. He kept running away and hiding everytime I came close to the tank, but yesterday I came home and he was munchin away on my toadstool and I just reached in and grabbed him. But I have heard if you put a smooth glass in your tank leaning on some rock and put a piece of shrimp at the bottom the crab will crawl in and not be able to get out. Good luck these crabs suck!!