Arrow Crab

topjago · Jul 11, 2021

kzenoni said:
Yep mine do the same thing

Okay cool pretty weird behavior, never had one so I was questioning what’s up lol thanks for the response!!

kzenoni · Jul 11, 2021

topjago said:
Okay cool pretty weird behavior, never had one so I was questioning what’s up lol thanks for the response!!

Glad I could help, this is my big boy. He is probably 10 inches from toe to toe if flattened out

MERKEY · Jul 11, 2021

Hello and welcome to R2R!

vetteguy53081 · Jul 11, 2021

topjago said:
Hey y’all happy to finally join this killer forum !! Kind of a weird question, for anyone with a arrow crab, how responsive are they when you try to poke them or scare them with something.? Mine seems to be blind, only seems to move around with feel of touch. And if I put a feeding tube in front of his face he won’t move until It feels a touch is this normal or is mine just blind ?

Theyre generally reactive. Is it getting something to eat? They generally feast on bristleworms.

vetteguy53081 · Jul 11, 2021

topjago · Jul 12, 2021

vetteguy53081 said:
Theyre generally reactive. Is it getting something to eat? They generally feast on bristleworms.

Yeah no worms in my tank I feed it..

topjago · Jul 12, 2021

kzenoni said:
Glad I could help, this is my big boy. He is probably 10 inches from toe to toe if flattened out

They are so cool, right! No issues with LPS ?

dwair · Jul 12, 2021

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

robbyg · Jul 12, 2021

topjago said:
They are so cool, right! No issues with LPS ?

I had one and he was not all that fast but he was very aggressive towards any shrimp or crabs in the Tank.
He killed a few shrimps and was nipping at my soft corals. I should have known he was bad news when I got him because they put two of them in the bag and when I got them all I found was him and the head and other bits of the second one. He ate like a pig and doubled in size within about 4 months. Soon after that he started eating the softies and he then was banished to the sump. Not happy with that he managed to get into the return area and my Reeflo Dart created fish food.

SPR1968 · Jul 12, 2021

Hi and welcome to Reef2Reef!

topjago · Jul 12, 2021

robbyg said:
I had one and he was not all that fast but he was very aggressive towards any shrimp or crabs in the Tank.
He killed a few shrimps and was nipping at my soft corals. I should have known he was bad news when I got him because they put two of them in the bag and when I got them all I found was him and the head and other bits of the second one. He ate like a pig and doubled in size within about 4 months. Soon after that he started eating the softies and he then was banished to the sump. Not happy with that he managed to get into the return area and my Reeflo Dart created fish food.

Yeah I see him picking at everything makes me nervous AF I am watching all my blasto with huge concern… So we will see might go back to LFS..