[ctxmonitor]

I just found out who is chewing on my blue tip stag. Last night when I was feeding my acans, I happen to watch over and saw my small emerald crab hanging in my blue tip stag. I was shock and curious, so I watch it for a few mintues. And there he goes, picking and cliping the polyps from the skin and chewing it:eek2: :eek2: .. I immediately took the whole piece out of the water and shake him off. I was wondering why my blue tip stag is missing polyps on some part of the body and time to time.. Now I know why.. This is strange since I had another bigger emerald crab that so far hasn't touch any sps. Not yet though. . The small one is ban to the sump along with a few other member [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

The small emerald crab was added a month ago. It came from a different batch. So I guess I got a bad one. I was initially hoping that they will eat bubble aglae, but none had. Who ever said emerald crab eat bubble aglae anyway???

[ June 30, 2005, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: ctxmonitor ]

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[jackson6745]

A few months ago I saw one eating polyps off of a milli colony. I'll never add them to a tank again.

[nanoreefer22]

Hmmmm should I be worried about my little emerald??

[ctxmonitor]

I think if yours hasn't cause any problem, worry-free. If you start see spot on the sps missing polyps, than i guess your best bet is the emerald crab. As I mention, the bigger one I got from the group buy from reeftopia, is still doing great. This little sucker came from etropical group buy.. Everything that came from liveaquaria or etropica seems to be bad..

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.