Crabs???

[stooops718]

Anyone know of any reef safe crabs that don't get too big and become bulldozers? Also reef safe. I had to get rid of my Emerald Crab last weekend. It was constantly knocking down rocks and frags even the ones glued down. I was looking into Porcelain crabs or Acro crabs. Any thoughts?

 

[arieln92]

I got an arrow crab when it was pretty small. Now the darn thing is about the size of my hand when open. Same problem, knocking down frags and rocks and constantly stealing my rbta's food.

 

[al0ha]

i read arrow crabs are not reef safe. most crabs are iffy on the whole reef safe thing since they are scavengers and won't resist a good opportunity to feed if something is weakening or dying.

 

[JimmyR1rider]

I know they're small but how about a pom pom crab? I'll be putting one in my RSM soon

 

[JonnyJ]

pom pom crabs, Porcelain crabs, Anemone crabs,

and fiddler - uca [they need somewhere to climb out of the water.]

 

[Imbarrie]

Porcelain crabs.
They filter feed from the water column but can also use its claws. They are extremely clumsy so they would not pose any threat.
I have one in my fuge and it is really cool to watch.

 

[Custom05Taco]

I have two Emerald crabs and have never had a problem. Is it possible its just the one you had

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[Imbarrie]

I have heard many people dont trust emerald crabs. And there is another non-reef safe crab that looks like an emerald crab. From what I have read the reef safe ones have red within their joints.
I have had them but its piece of mind not to. JMO

 

[stooops718]

Thanks everyone for the input. I'm leaning towards the porcelains. I dunno maybe I should skip the crabs all together but they are so cool to watch.

I have two Emerald crabs and have never had a problem. Is it possible its just the one you had

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Never had a problem with it eating anything it shouldn't just that it got too big so fast and it was bulldozing my aquascape. Even frags that were glued down. Wish I had room for a fuge.

 

[stooops718]

pom pom crabs, Porcelain crabs, Anemone crabs,

and fiddler - uca [they need somewhere to climb out of the water.]

I didn't know that. Could you link me to wherever you read that? Thanks

 

[stooops718]

Porcelain crabs.
They filter feed from the water column but can also use its claws. They are extremely clumsy so they would not pose any threat.
I have one in my fuge and it is really cool to watch.

They are cool looking. Any idea how big they get? I just dont want the same problem as my Emerald.

 

[JimmyR1rider]

I have heard many people dont trust emerald crabs. And there is another non-reef safe crab that looks like an emerald crab. From what I have read the reef safe ones have red within their joints.
I have had them but its piece of mind not to. JMO

I had one as a hitchhiker on my last tank barrie- looked a lot like an emerald but had black tips on its claws. I forgot the name of it. But he remembers the name- Amercian Standard lol.

 

[Imbarrie]

I definitely dont trust any crabs, I have had a couple hitchhikers and one that I removed from a crevice in pieces with a pair of feeding tongs.
I used to have hermits all over and a few emerald crabs.
I got rid of all of them and have snails instead simply for piece of mind.

But I did save one scarlet hermit and I have a porcelain crab.

 

[rbtwo4]

weird ive never had any issues with my emerald either.

 

[stooops718]

weird ive never had any issues with my emerald either.

My tank is only 12 gallons so maybe it was just too big for the tank.

 

[Imbarrie]

Just took some video of the crab in my fuge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvtHrBQPKBI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[George]

I definitely dont trust any crabs
...
I used to have hermits all over
...
I got rid of all of them and have snails instead simply for piece of mind.

+1 to the above! See my avatar; and if you don't recognize them, they are well boiled blue claw crabs! YUM!

George

 

[rbtwo4]

nice vid barrie. very interesting now im thinking of getting one lol. hey stoops how big was that emerald??? lol u make it sound like its huge. the one i had was the size of maybe a quarter lol

 

[stooops718]

nice vid barrie. very interesting now im thinking of getting one lol. hey stoops how big was that emerald??? lol u make it sound like its huge. the one i had was the size of maybe a quarter lol

About the same size, maybe a little bigger but it's claws were ginormous. LOL

 

[rbtwo4]

lmfao stoops