Ok, at the risk of sounding barbaric here's the report...
Just now, within the last 5 minutes, I've caught and killed a hitchhiking crab that's been terrorizing my tank for nearly a year...
He has (with a little help from his hermit buddies) managed to eat every snail I've put in the tank, and the hermits as well...
Yesterday, I got 5 Bumble Bee Snails and a small Cuke from the LFS...A little while ago I saw him trying to pry one of the Bumble Bees out of it's shell, right out in the open...Brazen little monster!
I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a paring knife...
He just sat there calmly working the snail out of the shell....
BAM! I skewered him right through the carapace with the scalpel-like blade!
He's now spending his last few moments of life in my back yard...
The snail seems OK,maybe he'll survive...
But, even if he doesn't, he will have given his life to save the lives of others of his species...
If he dies, I'm going to build a memorial from all the empty shells of his snail bretheren that lay scattered about the tank...
Just now, within the last 5 minutes, I've caught and killed a hitchhiking crab that's been terrorizing my tank for nearly a year...
He has (with a little help from his hermit buddies) managed to eat every snail I've put in the tank, and the hermits as well...
Yesterday, I got 5 Bumble Bee Snails and a small Cuke from the LFS...A little while ago I saw him trying to pry one of the Bumble Bees out of it's shell, right out in the open...Brazen little monster!
I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a paring knife...
He just sat there calmly working the snail out of the shell....
BAM! I skewered him right through the carapace with the scalpel-like blade!
He's now spending his last few moments of life in my back yard...
The snail seems OK,maybe he'll survive...
But, even if he doesn't, he will have given his life to save the lives of others of his species...
If he dies, I'm going to build a memorial from all the empty shells of his snail bretheren that lay scattered about the tank...