Brand new to the forum...my wife and I invested in a 29 gal biocube to start out small until I am out of military housing and into my permanent house 3-6 years down the line
Then I figure with the amount of knowledge I will have learned through my experiences as well as the reeftank community I can upgrade to something a little bigger.
Anyhow, back to the subject at hand. I had a couple of hitchiker crabs with the LR we got and was able to coax a crab out with some tweezers cause the hole he was in was not keep enough. We don't want them in there because we learned they can be fish killers and my wife wants fish. Anyhow, we IDed the crab through this website as a
gorilla crab(the little guy with hairy legs). The next night we spotted another one and there was no getting this guy out. So I googled "crab traps in reef tanks" and this website popped up. I am not sure who it was that made the suggestion but the idea was from a member from this website (kudos to him). I got one of my bourbon tumbler glasses, submerged it with water and leaned it up against the rock where we had last seen the crab. I took a chunk of uncooked shrimp that we were going to use to cycle the tank and weighed it down with a hook and barrel sinker (yes I like to fish) and then left it overnight. Pic of the setup (critter has already been caught and is in the trap):
This morning I pulled out the glass and viola....one crab awaiting some sort of sentence. I suspect death as my buddy doesn't want him for his refugium so the toilet may be his ultimatum unless someone here has an idea and can post back a reply in time (and no...I prefer king crableg and snow crableg so that option will not be entertained
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Here is a pic of the condemned. If my id as a gorilla crab is wrong please correct:
Now I also have 2 id requests:
The first one is a spongy type mass I found on the side of the rock that obviously was a hitchiker. Its a little bigger then a dime and the color in the photo is about right. Any ideas?
The other request is for a bug like critter that was also a hitchiker with the LR. Its fast and has 2 appendages about where the pincers on a crab would be. It raises these 2 appendages above itself and on the ends are what I would describe as a pair of
feather dusters which it is using to capture food as it will bring them to its mouth quite a bit. Sensative to light....I can bring the edge of the flash light onto it but direct light and I will have to wait till the next night to see it. I apologize for the poor pic quality but my camera wants to focus on the rock around it and not the actual critter itself. After about 25 different pictures...thank god for digital...this is what I got:
Anyone who contributes to this thread...thank you for your effort and your time...it is greatly appreciated.
