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Makaiveli
02-14-2004, 8:13 PM
Yeah I got some LR cured w/ purple algae on it, some bumble bee snails, and a Porcelain crab.
Anyone familiar with their habits?
Yep, some anyway the bumble bee snails are good substrate . they like to eat detritus out of nooks and cranies. If you get a chance to watch them feed you'll get a real kick out of their mouths. They look like a hose and are highly mobile and amazingly long. They also like to burrow into your substrate and are pretty cool and hardy all around. The crab is a cool little peacefull guy lots of them live in anemones or with other cnardians, bivalves etc. They are pretty easy to keep and also have pretty interesting habits especially if you've got one that will live in a comensial relations ship with a creature hardy enough to live in your tank .
chris
mogurnda
02-16-2004, 12:33 PM
What kind of porcelain crab? Some, like anemone crabs, are commensals, others aren't. They are all very cool inhabitants, fitler feeding and grubbing around for food. Some of mine even scrape the surface of the leather corals with their little baskets, presumably to get mucus.
Makaiveli
02-16-2004, 12:50 PM
Well it has some purplish color. The LFS didn't specify the type. It was in a tank with feather dusters and maybe a few anemones. It filter feeds alot. As well as sifts through the sand.
mogurnda
02-16-2004, 12:54 PM
Does it look like this, or is it a lot more white?
http://www.aquaticphotos.com/data/media/16/pcFaceOff.jpg
Like this?
http://www.usdivetravel.com/MikeGAnemoneCrab.jpg
Oakley
02-16-2004, 2:13 PM
Great Pictures Dave :)
mogurnda
02-16-2004, 2:17 PM
I can only claim responsibility for the first; I found the the anemone crab on google.
Makaiveli
02-16-2004, 3:51 PM
definately the first, pink/purplish one.
wastememphis
02-16-2004, 8:24 PM
those are awesome crabs, not sure on their habits...
ps. congratulations on post number 1400 dave!!!
mogurnda
02-17-2004, 8:40 AM
definately the first, pink/purplish one. I got a bunch of those on my aquacultured rock. They are quite peaceful, except among themselves. We just watched a couple wrestling for dominance on a pump intake tube, garbbing each others claws quite aggressively. Then it was dinner time, and they completely forgot their differences and started waving their feeding appendages.
It's really no wonder that they come in so often on live rock. In the wild, they can live at densities of 100's per sq meter. Tide pooling in Baja last year, I must have come across about a million of them. Given their ability to disappear, there must have been a full gazillion that I didn't even see.
ps. congratulations on post number 1400 dave I was told I got a key to the executive restroom at 1000, not sure what I get at 1400. Probably a PM from Reefscape describing the difference between quantity and quality.