Funny phone call

[dantodd]

My wife called me this afternoon and asked if a crab will eat snails.

Well, I set up her 10g nano that is on her desk so I KNOW she doesn't have any crabs.

So, I said that it is possible and asked if she had any hermit crabs or something in the tank. She said, no but there's a dead snail and she saw a crab and knows what rock it's in. I asked if it was like a tiny blue crab but hairy. Yep, that's it.

I told her he is a gorilla crab and can in fact eat snails.

She asked what to do and I told her to dunk the rock in fresh water to get the crab out or just bring the rock home. She asked why I wanted the crab.

After he ate her snail she was VERY HAPPY when I told her he would be food for the mantis.

I was pretty surprised that she was hapy to hear that the mantis would get him....

 

[psychodave]

hehe My girlfriend is bugging me to catch the xanthid in my 100g tank and feed it to Mitch my G. Chirgara, that crab is responsible for the death of an entire colony of zoanthids...there are only 5 survivors out of over 100....we both hate that crab with a passion!

 

[dantodd]

Well, the crab is here and it isn't a hairy crab. He looks like a brown porcelain crab. I popped him in and he ran for the underside of the LR. I haven't seen my mantis come out for it yet so hopefully I'll just find a shell in a couple days.