Emerald crabs?

[Anonymous]

I have some bubble algae and I just bought an emerald crab to deal with it. It's body is about the size of a nickel.

I dumped it in the tank, and almost immediately it started eating green star polyps. WTF? Are they all like this?

 

[Anonymous]

Seriously? No one told you?

 

[Anonymous]

I am about 99.9% sure that I have had them before without any problem.

I hope she likes my sump.

 

[Anonymous]

The best part is I overhead one person there telling another that one of the co-owners went home saying he thought he had the swine flu.

So I am now going to die because of this crab.

 

[Anonymous]

They are hit and miss. I usually get 4 or 5 of them (actually looking now) and then remove any if/when they start to eat other stuff.

 

[Ben1]

I have had some bubble algae myself and added a emerald crab, it was under constant attack by my wrasse and then dissappeared. AS far as my bubble algae I bought a long pair of curver forceps and pick it out, these are the ones I got. http://www.aquariumspecialty.com/catalo ... ts_id=2697 I was worried about the ones I was popping but someone said to me, if I don't pick it out it will put the spores into the water eventually anyhow. So picking it out and keeping my water clean has made it so I don't ever see it anymore. I know I have some still here and there but its in places I can't see or reach so all well.

 

[Anonymous]

The best part is I overhead one person there telling another that one of the co-owners went home saying he thought he had the swine flu.

So I am now going to die because of this crab.

Oh, God... Bill, no!

This thread just delivered, like nobody's bidness. :lol:

Emerald crabs can be problematic. A mantis shrimp, however, would fix that problem pretty quickly.

Don't die just yet, ok?

 

[Anonymous]

I have had some bubble algae myself and added a emerald crab, it was under constant attack by my wrasse and then dissappeared. AS far as my bubble algae I bought a long pair of curver forceps and pick it out, these are the ones I got. http://www.aquariumspecialty.com/catalo ... ts_id=2697 I was worried about the ones I was popping but someone said to me, if I don't pick it out it will put the spores into the water eventually anyhow. So picking it out and keeping my water clean has made it so I don't ever see it anymore. I know I have some still here and there but its in places I can't see or reach so all well.

I'm not a big believer in the idea that popping them will equal bubble algae all over your tank.

 

[MartinE]

The emeralds I tried in the past never seemed to eat the bubble algae I have. I had better luck with manual removal before water changes. Pop or no pop I still have some bubble algae and I dont think it will ever be totally gone either.

 

[Anonymous]

The only reef-safe crab is a dead crab. Well, and maybe those anemone crabs.

 

[Anonymous]

I try to roll them off the rocks. If I can't do that I use a medical syringe to put a shot of kalkwasser in them. I've never been able to completely erradicate them but they've never gotten to plague proportions either.

 

[Anonymous]

I try to roll them off the rocks. If I can't do that I use a medical syringe to put a shot of kalkwasser in them. I've never been able to completely erradicate them but they've never gotten to plague proportions either.

Hmm....never thought to nuke 'em with kalk, 8) stored for future reference!