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Post by jrodimon on Aug 4, 2015 21:03:41 GMT -5
Can someone identify this crab? Attachments:
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Post by fermentedhiker on Aug 4, 2015 21:21:58 GMT -5
Looks like a porcelain crab to me.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Aug 4, 2015 21:41:05 GMT -5
Yup 100% a porcelain crab. They are harmless filter feeders. Some even form symbiotic relationships with hosting anemones.
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Aug 5, 2015 7:45:26 GMT -5
Good score! Love to get beneficial free hitchhikers!
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Post by jasonandsarah on Aug 5, 2015 8:46:22 GMT -5
That's one sweet looking hitchhiker! I'm never that lucky...
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Aug 5, 2015 8:59:49 GMT -5
Ya all I tend to get are snaila and hermits! Unfortunately I picked up an aptasia with some zoas I got recently. Ugh!
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Post by foggman on Aug 5, 2015 10:54:01 GMT -5
Boiling water in a seringe is what I use on aptasia
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2015 11:32:09 GMT -5
I've only ever had one. Pickling lime mixed with boiling water into a thick paste and applied with an oral syringe made sure that it went from 1 to 0.
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Post by jasonandsarah on Aug 5, 2015 12:34:32 GMT -5
I've only ever had one. Pickling lime mixed with boiling water into a thick paste and applied with an oral syringe made sure that it went from 1 to 0. Same for me I've only had one and technically speaking it really never made it in my tank. It poked it's head out when I had the coral temp accllimating so I cut the whole rock right off! |
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Aug 5, 2015 12:57:51 GMT -5
Got one when I first started in the hobby. I was stupid then and was actually feeding it shrimp pellets. It got huge! Once I found out it wasn't a good anemone, blasted it with salt slush. Kiled it instantly. This one's head it no bigger than a dime and right in the middle of some zoas. Don't want to hurt them. Are the suggestios given going to hurt them?
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Post by jasonandsarah on Aug 5, 2015 13:21:14 GMT -5
Got one when I first started in the hobby. I was stupid then and was actually feeding it shrimp pellets. It got huge! Once I found out it wasn't a good anemone, blasted it with salt slush. Kiled it instantly. This one's head it no bigger than a dime and right in the middle of some zoas. Don't want to hurt them. Are the suggestios given going to hurt them? I would use a diabetic syringe and inject that little bastard with kalk and boiling water. Loosing a couple zoas is better then having aptasia everywhere. |
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Post by Rakahrd Eastbrook, Me. on Aug 6, 2015 12:52:17 GMT -5
there is a shrimp that loves to eat aptasia too
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Post by jasonandsarah on Aug 6, 2015 13:27:55 GMT -5
there is a shrimp that loves to eat aptasia too Peppermint shrimp and there hit or miss at best when it comes to eating aptasia. A few years ago people would try them but barely now a days. People use CBB, Joe's juice, kalk paste or slurry or majano wands |
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