Crabs are awesome

[JoJosReef]

I was wondering what to do with the first molt of my spotted porcelain crab, who's been happily hanging out on top of my return RFG.

Take it out or leave it in?

Resolved by my pom pom-less pom pom crab. I never see him out and about, but it was entertaining watching him bully a snail to get to the molt, grab it and drag it up a rock to rest under my octospawn. He's been slowly dismantling it and chewing on the tasty bits, I presume.

Hard to get him at this angle, but he's tucked under the octo with the molt (which is as big as he is) in his grips.

I love these crabs!

 

[Lyss]

I have a pair of plain green porcelain crabs and love them too! Such cool and peaceful little dudes. I used to pull them out but I leave the molts in these days, even from the cleaner shrimp. Usually w/in a few days they're gone.

 

[JoJosReef]

I have a pair of plain green porcelain crabs and love them too! Such cool and peaceful little dudes. I used to pull them out but I leave the molts in these days, even from the cleaner shrimp. Usually w/in a few days they're gone.

I have a green too! I find it fascinating the difference between the spotted and the green. The green likes to hang out upside down and has his hands waving constantly, while the spotted is a big ham. He perches right on a rock or (right now) on the return locline and holds his fans out wide without moving for several seconds before cleaning them off.

Now if only I could get my sexy shrimp to stay off my stylo!

 

[SlugSnorter]

I have a green too! I find it fascinating the difference between the spotted and the green. The green likes to hang out upside down and has his hands waving constantly, while the spotted is a big ham. He perches right on a rock or (right now) on the return locline and holds his fans out wide without moving for several seconds before cleaning them off.

Now if only I could get my sexy shrimp to stay off my stylo!

spotted and green are actually different species! the spotted porcelain's full name is the porcelain (spotted) anemone "crab"

 

[Lyss]

Not a porcelain, but caught this duo hanging together last night. Sometimes they fight and I have to separate them, then other times they’re just together like that.

 

[TheBombasticReefer]

Very cool, I love porcelain crabs.

Ps, I lol’d @ your thread title.

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

I just got two little emerald crabs (to help take care of some hair algae). I love them! I've been sitting here watching them eat like crazy and it's so entertaining, lol.

 

[JoJosReef]

I just got two little emerald crabs (to help take care of some hair algae). I love them! I've been sitting here watching them eat like crazy and it's so entertaining, lol.

I've been debating getting an emerald or ruby, still undecided. I have codium, pom pom graci, and a bit of brotycladia, so wondering if they will start munching on my macro and also what to do when the remaining GHA is gone. Don't want corals next on the menu!

 

[Paul B]

Just leave it in. It will disappear soon. I get them all over the place.

Also my favorite crab.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Just leave it in. It will disappear soon. I get them all over the place.

love those porcelain nem crabs. They are stunning.

 

[BanjoBandito]

I take my emerald molts out and pose them on my shelf.

 

[SlugSnorter]

I take my emerald molts out and pose them on my shelf.

I understand. they are so crunchy they are like chips but better.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I have a green too! I find it fascinating the difference between the spotted and the green. The green likes to hang out upside down and has his hands waving constantly, while the spotted is a big ham. He perches right on a rock or (right now) on the return locline and holds his fans out wide without moving for several seconds before cleaning them off.

Now if only I could get my sexy shrimp to stay off my stylo!

My sexy shrimp ate my purple stylo. Even with regular spot feeding. Then started in on the blastos and had to be removed.

We started an evo with a bunch of maxi minis just to keep them again though as we liked them so much.

 

[SlugSnorter]

My sexy shrimp ate my purple stylo. Even with regular spot feeding. Then started in on the blastos and had to be removed.

We started an evo with a bunch of maxi minis just to keep them again though as we liked them so much.

Gives me an idea, a 30 gallon DT RFA garden with all the crazy verities and colors, with an assortment of RFA dwellers like porcelain nem crabs, sexies, ETC. Would be awsome.

 

[shrimped]

What i like to do with intact crab molts

 

[SlugSnorter]

What i like to do with intact crab molts

yummy

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

I've been debating getting an emerald or ruby, still undecided. I have codium, pom pom graci, and a bit of brotycladia, so wondering if they will start munching on my macro and also what to do when the remaining GHA is gone. Don't want corals next on the menu!

I'm wondering too... the giant turbo snail I got when I bought the crabs is also eating its way through the GHA... pretty soon I may have to return them or feed them!

 

[JoJosReef]

Looks like my green porcelain crab managed to catch a floating chunk of frozen krill and is going to town on it! Didn't realize they like big meaty foods so much!

 

[DeniseAndy]

I love my anemone crab too. Always out and having fun. The pompom is a bit more reserved and hides too much.

 

[JoJosReef]

I love my anemone crab too. Always out and having fun. The pompom is a bit more reserved and hides too much.

I should film my spotted nem crab getting target fed. It's funny. I first pipette out the oyster feast/phyto/Zu Feast, and as soon as it realizes what's coming it does a Rocky statue pose (stands up tall with claws way up in the water) and starts shoveling it in. Then I target feed it a small piece of krill, and it comes right to the forcepts, grabs the forceps and scoops the krill towards it, then snacks away for a few min. Even the green porcelain has started coming to the forceps for a piece of krill. Pom pom still won't, but I try to hide away a piece for it where it usually hangs out.