Emerald Crabs are NOT Reef safe!

[Diznaster]

nah, just noticed this today.. kinda hoping she was just going after something on the tree? wishful thinking..

my tank is mostly clean, but if she was going to be a coral eater, how about the endless amount of ugly trash zoas i have on my live rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'd pay to find a fish that just annihilates zoas like they're going out of business

Funny that's exactly what I thought at first, oh your just cleaning a spot from the coral. The I saw it there the next few nights and realized all the missing flesh.

 

[Reefpuck]

I've got 2 smaller ones (no idea if they're a male or female) but they stick to the algae

 

[Gaspipe]

I think that since there's so much food for only two crabs, mine have never touched coral or fish

How's this working so far? Still A-OK?

 

[rantipole]

Sorry to necro the thread!

Has anyone had an emerald eat frogspawn? My frogspawn is suddenly closed up and two heads look picked on. I added the emerald, two blue-legged hermits, and a chaeto refugium on Sunday. I noticed the start of the problem Tuesday morning. It's gotten worse. I haven't seen the emerald or the hermits bothering the frogspawn, but I can't watch all the time.

Cheers,
rant

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sorry to necro the thread!

Has anyone had an emerald eat frogspawn? My frogspawn is suddenly closed up and two heads look picked on. I added the emerald, two blue-legged hermits, and a chaeto refugium on Sunday. I noticed the start of the problem Tuesday morning. It's gotten worse. I haven't seen the emerald or the hermits bothering the frogspawn, but I can't watch all the time.

Cheers,
rant

Emerald crabs are not to be trusted and ive seen them not eat them but pull the polyps off for no good reason.

 

[rantipole]

Great. Thanks for the info.

I'm now thinking the problem is something worse. Will make a separate thread for it. j

Cheers,
rant

 

[jthunderzzz]

Sorry to necro the thread!

Has anyone had an emerald eat frogspawn? My frogspawn is suddenly closed up and two heads look picked on. I added the emerald, two blue-legged hermits, and a chaeto refugium on Sunday. I noticed the start of the problem Tuesday morning. It's gotten worse. I haven't seen the emerald or the hermits bothering the frogspawn, but I can't watch all the time.

Cheers,
rant

I was watching my tank and saw my emerald just picking and eating tentacles off of mu torch so I bet this could have happened. Once I saw this he was banished to the sump where he lives now.