Sally Lightfoot hell!! Help please!!

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Re: Thanks!

Re: Thanks!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11762514#post11762514 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TimL
Thanks everyone for the ideas. I will give 'em a shot.

He ate:

mated pair of percula clowns: 125.00

watchman goby
mandarin goby

royal gramma

pair of mis-bar clowns (percula replacements)

2 yellowitail damsels

pair of occelaris clowns (mis-bar replacements)
I actually saw the crab catch one of these with the lights on.

there are more but my notebook is at home!

All that is left is my longnose hawk which is safe cuz it sleeps on my koralias at the top of the tank!

wow ! That crab is making an open buffet on your tank. :lol: Better to take it out as fast as possible.
I'll go for the spear !

 

[Reeftanks6]

Sorry to hear that happen i was thinking of buying one later down the road now i am definitely not going to do it.

 

[elkinsda]

I netted the SLF that i had at night. Boy was he trying to get out of that net, i had to drag the net up the side of the glass and out of the tank.

 

[TimL]

SUCCESS!!! Finally

SUCCESS!!! Finally

I had pretty much given up on this. However, yesterday I decided to try again. I placed a a smaller glass in the tank with a chunk of prawn in it. While watching the blood shrimps and my 2 remaining fish pick at it....I waited.

Finally after about 40 minutes....Sally couldnt resist and in the glass she went. So Sally is on the way back to the LFS now that she is bagged and in my QT.

Thanks again everyone!!

 

[PogoMonogo]

I hear people say that Sally light feet crabs are great for reef tanks, but when someone asks me to purchase one, I really try to point them in another direction. I have heard and seen too many instances of them going after fish in the tank. Typically if a fish dies in a tank, and they eat it, they will begin going after living fish.

 

[VaderWS6]

I used to have a huge one. That thing was incredibly fast. I actually caught it by mistake with my hand! I was moving a pump, it darted past my hand and I just grabbed it. I put it in my 20 gallon reef where it got even larger. Eventually I caught it again, this time with a net and put it back in my 75 gallon. It died of old age a couple years later and I fed the body to my snowflake moray. I have 2 sally's in my 75 gallon now, and they spawn once in a while. Its wild seeing the female oxygenate her egg mass, and she eats twice as much when she has eggs! Too bad there's no algae in my reef and I've gotta feed them nori... :rollface: