Almondsaz
02-22-2009, 9:48 AM
Well, most hitchikers that I have gotten have been fun except for one. I started to notice that I was buying a lot of snails just to keep a base number in tact for algae control. Then I noticed that my small hermits were starting to disappear. One night during the typical "moonlight" observation watch I saw a crab that I didn't put in there around where all the shells were congregating. Got the flashlight and noticed that this one, about 2" max had dark ends to the claws. I couldn't get it out becuase of its location in my rock formation and it went inside the rock itself (about a 35# rock).
I had the misfortune of having to get up becuase the electricity went off and for someone who sleeps through fire alarms can figure out why I get up when all goes dead silent...but I did/do.
I caught the tank before the sump overflowed and also caught the crab out in the open at one end of the reef tank. Plucked it out, but not til after it got my solarensis wrasse. I was really perturbed.
Needless to say the crab has gone the watery way and will not be in my tank.
I tried putting traps or baiting with silversides and it would grab them but I couldn't pull him out of the tank.
At least my tank is back to 'normal'.
I had the misfortune of having to get up becuase the electricity went off and for someone who sleeps through fire alarms can figure out why I get up when all goes dead silent...but I did/do.
I caught the tank before the sump overflowed and also caught the crab out in the open at one end of the reef tank. Plucked it out, but not til after it got my solarensis wrasse. I was really perturbed.
Needless to say the crab has gone the watery way and will not be in my tank.
I tried putting traps or baiting with silversides and it would grab them but I couldn't pull him out of the tank.
At least my tank is back to 'normal'.