arrow crab
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Ooooh! Aaaah!
Sorry, I missed it somehow.
They are great creatures. Just keep an eye on it around sessile invertebrates. They have a tendency to eat just about anything that can't outrun them.
Sorry, I missed it somehow.
They are great creatures. Just keep an eye on it around sessile invertebrates. They have a tendency to eat just about anything that can't outrun them.
I have one in my reef, hes fairly large now, he hasn't harmed anything other than my bristle worm YAY! (sorry if you have a thing for fire worms) He just hangs out around my toadstool leather all day, I think they have "a thing" for eachother 
They will certainly eat fanworms, and I know people who have watched them eat xenia.
"Reef safe" seems very relative. A lot of people say peppermint shrimp are less destructive than arrow crabs, but I think they just have different diets. Now that the last pep has disappeared from my tank (they all went mysteriously) the terebellid worms are doing great.
If there is a point to this post, it is that almost anything you put in a tank will eat or bother something else. If the arrow crab starts munching on a beloved coral, then it will have to go. Otherwise, they are really cool looking.
"Reef safe" seems very relative. A lot of people say peppermint shrimp are less destructive than arrow crabs, but I think they just have different diets. Now that the last pep has disappeared from my tank (they all went mysteriously) the terebellid worms are doing great.
If there is a point to this post, it is that almost anything you put in a tank will eat or bother something else. If the arrow crab starts munching on a beloved coral, then it will have to go. Otherwise, they are really cool looking.
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I despise Arrow Crabs. I once had one...it ate me Gold Banded Shrimp. Eventually i just saw it as a big ugly spider.
I despise Arrow Crabs. I once had one...it ate me Gold Banded Shrimp. Eventually i just saw it as a big ugly spider.