Emerald crab

btkrausen · Feb 12, 2011

Keep us up to date on how they do. I'd be interested to see if they take care of them for you.

jestr · Feb 12, 2011

imo the best thing to kill bubble has been a short spine urchin

btkrausen · Feb 12, 2011

jestr said:
imo the best thing to kill bubble has been a short spine urchin

Isn't there a specific one though? I looked for them on LiveAquaria and they didn't have them at the time. Which species does eat it?

Reloadeddevil · Feb 12, 2011

btkrausen said:
Keep us up to date on how they do. I'd be interested to see if they take care of them for you.

Got it. If they do clear out all of it. They are all yours

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btkrausen · Feb 12, 2011

Haha, I'm just playing. It is frustrating that I've tried the same thing and yours went right for it though, haha. I wish mine would just start eating bubble algae and get fat off of it

chipcount · Feb 12, 2011

FYI for others trying to get rid of them, I have heard that the smaller emeralds go for the bubble aglae more so than the larger ones. I had BA and bought 3 of the smallest crabs I could find and they took care of it for me.

btkrausen · Feb 12, 2011

Thanks Chipcount. I'd probably need to buy about 30 of the little guys for as much bubble algae that is growing on my rocks, haha.

Reloadeddevil · Feb 13, 2011

Well about 70% of my bubble algae is gone. Originally there five spots with bubble algae, when woke up this morning four spots were completley gone as if there were no bubbles at all. Very happy with emerlads.

btkrausen · Feb 13, 2011

Man that's great to hear. Im glad somebody has had some luck with those guys.

Reloadeddevil · Feb 13, 2011

btkrausen said:
Man that's great to hear. Im glad somebody has had some luck with those guys.

Yeah. I guess it is working pretty good. I will post an update once its erradicated completley.

Hyprviperx · Feb 14, 2011

CHALICEKEEPER said:
I had one in the past and it tore into my tyree bgm like 3 times and he was out of the tank for good

i agree i had one and as soon as he hit the bottom he ran over to my polyps and started tearing them off one after the other. what an a hole, great sheepshead bait though haha

Hyprviperx · Feb 14, 2011

jestr said:
imo the best thing to kill bubble has been a short spine urchin

are you referring to the tuxedo urchin?

tangboy · Feb 14, 2011

I have 3 EC but they haven't touched the few small pieces of bubble algae I have, but they pull something off the rocks and eat it.

sportzfish · Feb 14, 2011

What I don't understand is why an emerald crab with only one claw in my tank never manages to ever grow back the other missing claw. I wonder if our tanks are missing some sort of key nutrient that won't allow them to regenerate unlike say a blue crab.

btkrausen · Feb 14, 2011

Hyprviperx said:
are you referring to the tuxedo urchin?

I don't think he's is, there is another one with short, stubby spines, like fat spines, that eats then. I did some reason on them but never found anybody who sells them.

However, a tuxedo may decide to wear some bubble algae, haha.

dougers31 · Feb 15, 2011

I would take a bunch of emeralds any day over hermits... little snail killers. Plus they do a better job of nuisance algae control.

Hyprviperx · Feb 15, 2011

btkrausen said:
I don't think he's is, there is another one with short, stubby spines, like fat spines, that eats then. I did some reason on them but never found anybody who sells them.

However, a tuxedo may decide to wear some bubble algae, haha.

like the pencil urchin