anemone crab

I just got to see the coolest thing! I have an anemone crab in my 8-gal. hex.
Dumped a few new empty shells in there tonight for the various hermits, and he
found one he likes. Fiddled around with one for a long time, then I put another
one in there because it's a big larger, and he took a quick look and slid right
in, then proceeded to start peeling his anemones off his old shell. There were
two little ones that he put under his belly on the edge of the shell, and now
he's working on two bigger ones. The little ones peeled right off, then stuck
right back on the new shell. Getting the larger ones off seems to involve
irritating them so bad for so long that they let go.

He and his anemones are shades of pink, white and cream. His old shell was
green, but the new one is white with tan and pink. He'll be so well dressed!

That is cool!

Cindy wrote:

I just got to see the coolest thing! I have an anemone crab in my
8-gal. hex. Dumped a few new empty shells in there tonight for the
various hermits, and he found one he likes. Fiddled around with one
for a long time, then I put another one in there because it's a big
larger, and he took a quick look and slid right in, then proceeded to
start peeling his anemones off his old shell. There were two little
ones that he put under his belly on the edge of the shell, and now
he's working on two bigger ones. The little ones peeled right off,
then stuck right back on the new shell. Getting the larger ones off
seems to involve irritating them so bad for so long that they let go.

He and his anemones are shades of pink, white and cream. His old shell
was green, but the new one is white with tan and pink. He'll be so
well dressed!


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This is a photo of the type of crab I have.

http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/m...nculatus).html

* Cindy wrote, On 10/20/2006 10:51 PM:
This is a photo of the type of crab I have.

http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/m...nculatus).html


Another example of a stupid impulse buy.

From a reputable shop.

After asking a very knowledgeable employee/owner SPECIFICALLY whether the crab
is reef safe and being told YES.

It ate my scooter blenny.

I guess it would be reef-safe in a reef tank with fish too fast, large or
aggressive to catch and eat and nothing else tasty lying around.

I have too many crabs that want to eat everything. Will I never learn?

1st of all, that was a cool story of your crab. thanks for taking your
excitement to the newsgroup.

2nd, did you like that scooter blenny? I have a lawnmower blenny and we
love 'em. Scooters aren't really blennys
http://www.peteducation.com/article....articleid=1961, so I
wonered if they are compatible in a tank? Any ideas?

I had one impulse buy (dead now), and a time where I helped out a friend and
just dumped his fish in my tank...(4 out of 5 I trapped and sent to pet
store, 5th is ok). It's tough. We all know to read first but sometimes the
pet stores just talk so good about a fish and you really really love the
looks of the animal. We all have done it somehow.

Oh well.

B


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* Cindy wrote, On 10/20/2006 10:51 PM:
This is a photo of the type of crab I have.

http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/m...nculatus).html

Another example of a stupid impulse buy.

From a reputable shop.

After asking a very knowledgeable employee/owner SPECIFICALLY whether the
crab is reef safe and being told YES.

It ate my scooter blenny.

I guess it would be reef-safe in a reef tank with fish too fast, large or
aggressive to catch and eat and nothing else tasty lying around.

I have too many crabs that want to eat everything. Will I never learn?

* Bryan wrote, On 10/21/2006 2:15 AM:
1st of all, that was a cool story of your crab. thanks for taking your
excitement to the newsgroup.

You're welcome. My kids roll their eyes and laugh at me, so I gotta tell
somebody who understands.

2nd, did you like that scooter blenny? I have a lawnmower blenny and we
love 'em. Scooters aren't really blennys
http://www.peteducation.com/article....articleid=1961, so I
wonered if they are compatible in a tank? Any ideas?

I don't know if those two would be compatible, but someone else probably will.
I love scooters. It's great to have several running around interacting -- they
look like they gossip about each other. I had three in a 50 for a long time.
Another thing I've noticed about that LFS, something all us newbies need to
watch out for -- the owner and the employees are clearly knowledgeable about
sal****er and reef tanks, though I'm sure they don't know everything anymore
than anyone else does. They answered *most* of my questions correctly, but if I
didn't ask SPECIFIC questions, they didn't volunteer the answer. For instance,
the guy who got me the scooter knew I was putting it in an 8-gal. tank, but he
didn't tell me the tank wouldn't be big enough to support it, even though I had
just asked about a Target Mandarin, which has the same requirements as the
scooter. A different person sold me the crab, and when I got the scooter I
didn't tell him I already had the crab, so that one was my fault.

I had one impulse buy (dead now), and a time where I helped out a friend and
just dumped his fish in my tank...(4 out of 5 I trapped and sent to pet
store, 5th is ok). It's tough. We all know to read first but sometimes the
pet stores just talk so good about a fish and you really really love the
looks of the animal. We all have done it somehow.

Yeah...I think I'll take the crab back. I like him, but I'd like to have more
than one thing to look at and I already have Macho Crab in his own little tank.

On a positive note, I put a stronger powerhead in the tank, and it's wiping out
the red slime.
It was really brought home to me how MUCH it helped when I turned it off to feed
and forgot to turn it back on until the next evening -- the cyanobacteria spread
and grew a million bubbles and long trailers, which almost disappeared again
within a day after turning the powerhead back on.

Cindy