emerald crabs ... time to remove?

[Joe V.]

Are emerald crabs known to bother brittle stars? We bought 4 emerald crabs
awhile ago, and 2 of them just got massive (molted twice!). Recently, we
observed that a couple of the arms of our brittle star seem like they've
been cut. Could this be the crab? I've been looking around with a flashlight
to see what else could have done this, but other than the crab I don't have
anything that could cleanly slice my brittle star's arm. We do have other
crabs (hermit, decorator, etc) but they're all pretty tiny and came with my
live rock.

Thanks!

[C]

Dont think it would of been your emerald Mine has been in our tank for
8 months never had a problem with it. Check out the claws ... there
made for pulling algee not cutting. Have a good look might be a rock
crab or teddybear.

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:25:31 -0600, "Joe V." >
wrote:

>Are emerald crabs known to bother brittle stars? We bought 4 emerald crabs
>awhile ago, and 2 of them just got massive (molted twice!). Recently, we
>observed that a couple of the arms of our brittle star seem like they've
>been cut. Could this be the crab? I've been looking around with a flashlight
>to see what else could have done this, but other than the crab I don't have
>anything that could cleanly slice my brittle star's arm. We do have other
>crabs (hermit, decorator, etc) but they're all pretty tiny and came with my
>live rock.
>
>Thanks!
>