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Old 07-13-2006, 10:36 PM   #1
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I found a Fat tarantula like crab!


I have a 24 gallon nano with a few fish, a cleaner shrimp and soft corals. Tonight when I fed, this monster came out! He is about the size of a silver dollar, very shy, dark in color, and looks like a cross between a fat tarantula and a toad! Definately a crab, haven't lost any fish or anything else. I am thinking a gorilla crab and do I definately have to get rid of him and if so how? He scares me!
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Old 07-13-2006, 10:42 PM   #2
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You can try using a drinking glass with bait leaning against the rock with the hopes he will go in after food and not be able to crawl back up
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Old 07-13-2006, 10:52 PM   #3
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So he definately needs to go?
I saw he likes the brine shrimp I put in, so I know he is a meat eater!
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Crabs are opportunistic he may be ok but maybe not most people don't trust crabs in their reef
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Old 07-14-2006, 12:55 PM   #8
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Welcome to TRT JY13131

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gorilla or decorator. don't kill it. put it in your sump or take it to the lfs.
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my lfs said if I brought him there he would feed him to the triggerfish! He is kind of cute, in an ugly way!
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gorilla or decorator. don't kill it. put it in your sump or take it to the lfs.
Agreed. And take it to another LFS if you go that route!
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Agreed. And take it to another LFS if you go that route!
What ever happened to that crab?
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He was served in a dilled holidaise.
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