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03-03-2008, 10:19 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Columbus, OH
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Mysterious Decorator Crab Death
I have a new 75 gallon reef tank. My tank went through the initial cycle and after it completed I added my invertebrates. Well the tank has been up and running with the inverts for about a week. The tank has 150lbs live rock and 75 lbs live sand. One of my favorites so far has been my very active decorator crab. This morning when I got home from the fire station I found one of his legs on one side of the tank and him lying upside down on the bottom of the tank on the other side. Other than the missing leg there was no other obvious injury. He has shown no signs of any distress prior to this. I've had no other losses at this point and as a final note I am brand new to all this, so please feel free to offer any suggestions. Any ideas as to what happened and why? Thank-you very much.
Water
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20
Specific Gravity 1.022
Temp. 75 - 76
PH 8.4
Inverts
Very small blue leg hermits
astrea snails
very small porcelin crab
3 Brittle Stars
3 peppermint shrimp
Tiger Tail Cucumber
Anemone - Condylacitis, I think
1 small slipper lobster
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03-03-2008, 03:18 PM
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Professor Chaos
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
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are you sure it is not just a molt of his skin?
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03-03-2008, 03:34 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Columbus, OH
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I'm not sure, how could I tell?
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03-05-2008, 02:10 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Columbus, OH
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If he is molting, how long until he will reappear?
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03-05-2008, 02:37 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Take it out and it will only be a shell (no meet inside).Some times takes a couple days to start going around again.
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03-06-2008, 11:09 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Columbus, OH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Loverotties
Take it out and it will only be a shell (no meet inside).Some times takes a couple days to start going around again.
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You are absolutely right, that is exactly what happened. IT'S AMAZING! My decorator crab is still ALIVE. Yesterday as I was watching the tank I kept seeing and odd little creature down in a hole. So I got a flashlight and there was my crab. That is so cool. I feel kind of silly for not realizing what happened but I guess that is a rookie mistake. Thank-you everyone and I'll post pics if I can get them.
Joe
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03-06-2008, 11:26 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Glad he's OK!
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03-10-2008, 05:11 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: WI
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our hermit crab did this the second day we had him, Core thought he was dead too! looked like he puked his body out of his shell, he shrunk inside so far, i gotta say he did look dead!
Hey, thnk of it this way- he is happy!!
Make sure you have other shells too...you probably know that, but thought i would mention it
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03-12-2008, 01:51 AM
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squid
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Tallahassee
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This is one of the first things I remember going through when we set-up our first tank. I think our molting vixen was a cleaner shrimp. I was very sad, and then very happy that he had grown!
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