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mikeguerrero
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Magnolia,
I'll give you a small heads up. I hope you find the crab and get him out, they are bad news. During my first years in reefing I remember getting excited when I learned I had a crab with my live rocks.
I didn't know that hitch-hickers in the reef world are bad news. Well this crab eluded me for months. I kept losing my snails and then my fish one by one in the night.
Finally I stood up one night and saw the little hairy bastard. I couldn't get him because he was so embedded deep in my 80 gallon tall reef tank. So out of frustrations I went to my 10 gallon Octopus tank and asked him for a small favor.
Yeah I dropped him in and bam in just 10 minutes he caught the litter bugger and had sushi right in frong of me. I would have joined him but I just had finished a cheeseburger, fries,,, hehee
Now I know you won't do that but you should find a way to capture him before it becomes a problem...
good luck,,,
Mike
I'll give you a small heads up. I hope you find the crab and get him out, they are bad news. During my first years in reefing I remember getting excited when I learned I had a crab with my live rocks.
I didn't know that hitch-hickers in the reef world are bad news. Well this crab eluded me for months. I kept losing my snails and then my fish one by one in the night.
Finally I stood up one night and saw the little hairy bastard. I couldn't get him because he was so embedded deep in my 80 gallon tall reef tank. So out of frustrations I went to my 10 gallon Octopus tank and asked him for a small favor.
Yeah I dropped him in and bam in just 10 minutes he caught the litter bugger and had sushi right in frong of me. I would have joined him but I just had finished a cheeseburger, fries,,, hehee
Now I know you won't do that but you should find a way to capture him before it becomes a problem...
good luck,,,
Mike
what a tight story
Man Mike, that's so cool. You hired Arnold Schwartzen-octopus to terminate your problem. I guess after that it was hasta la vista baby! Wish I was there back then to have seen that. I do remember you octopus "oggie" way back then though... and your tank back then was the bomb, 80 gallon tank in a small apt on the second floor, haha. Memories...you wouldn't happen to have old pics of them would you?mikeguerrero said:
from regular shots to macro shots, enjoy!
mikeguerrero
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Impressive,
You are getting much better at macros. I'm amazed....
MG
You are getting much better at macros. I'm amazed....
MG
That crab looks alot like a stone crab. They get to be about 6 inches acrossed (at least the ones I have seen) and are said to have real tasty claws (the only part you can harvest) but I can't say from experience because I am allergic to seafood. On the larger ones they have one claw that is usually bigger than the other, I have seen them hold a fish in the larger claw while they picked meat off and ate with the smaller one. This is definately one to not keep in your tank. Skip
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SkiptomyLou
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My friend told me about his boss that had one 30g tank with an octopus in it and then another reef tank with misc. corals & fish - he came home from work one day and the octo had climbed out of his tank and into the other and ate everything!
Octo creep me out! But it's cool that he's so friendly with you.
Octo creep me out! But it's cool that he's so friendly with you.