Killer Emerald Crab?!

[Sonam]

We just watched an emerald crab savagely rip a nassarius snail from it's shell! In 5 years of reefing we've not seen this before.

We thought emerald crabs were vegetarian?

 

[Dsnakes]

There are many instances where an emerald crab will easily become an opportunistic feeder. They are crabs after all

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

must be related to my hermit crabs that year about anything they get their hands on... including each other.

 

[declanisadog]

It definitely happens. I swore off emeralds years ago.

 

[rhdoug]

ditto - every one I tried ended up eating coral.

 

[c.poindexter]

Bad day for Mr Snail, but would have been neat to witness the crab stepping out of his norm.

 

[Mattrg02]

I banished a very large one to my sump. Caught him with a fish in his claws during feeding time. He also was going for acroporas polyps. He’s still alive, down there, looking all mutated. Scares me to look in that sump.

 

[ether]

Not vegetarian. Lots of instances of this if you Google.

 

[MartinWaite]

They will eat anything they can get there claws on or into!

 

[Reef_Obsessed]

That sucks, because they are so cool to watch. Guess I won’t be getting any emeralds

 

[Grsfish]

I have had several and never seen them do that but I guess you never know with crabs

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

That sucks, because they are so cool to watch. Guess I won’t be getting any emeralds [emoji852]️

they are super fun to watch!! ... until you watch them snag a sleeping anthias.