STUPID ARROW CRAB

[ansonluna]

My dang arrow crab just ate one of my brand new cleaner shrimp. I don't think the bank has even processed my bebit card payment yet... :angry

[Tim Marvin]

Not very likely the arrow attacked it. More than likely the cleaner was dieing and the arrow took advantage of it.

[eric]

Arrows can make for a bunch of expensive lessons, can't they?

[ansonluna]

Well the other cleaner seemed to be picking on him also (they were bought at the same time) during acclimation and the fish actually starting to eat at his tail when I dumped them in. I had to get the net and stop them.

[eric]

Don't think you can blame the crab then

[Reef69]

I agree with Tim..arrow crabs are scavengers, they dont attack anybody..if it was a coral banded shrimp..thats a diff. story..those %#@!%&! can do some damage if they get a hold of something..

[christerrell2k3]

yeah, i cant put any more chromis in until i get rid of the coral banded... i have watched him stab a fish, then cut off its fins and let it go..... to die....
im scurred of him even.

[Reef69]

yeah, they are bad...good thing is that they are blind...

[CD]

arrow crabs are scavengers, they dont attack anybody


Ummm...according to Calfo and Fenner, that's not true: "...renowned for eating bristleworms but also for killing small fishes and other crustaceans. It is a true carnivorous species and perhaps a measurable burden on other desirable microfauna in live sand and live rock..."

HTHs

Wendy

[Tim Marvin]

Definately one to avoid.

[Reef69]

Calfo and Fenner dont know anything!! :angry JK :skeezy

[Brett Wilson]

A picture, better yet a VIDEO is worth a thousand words...

Here are two videos of my old arrow crab.
http://www.killbuddha.com/videos/arrow_crab1.WMV
http://www.killbuddha.com/videos/arrow_crab2.WMV

They require delicate placement in a reef tank... though mine never ate anything but tons of bristle worms....
OK OK I admit, I fed it tons of bristle worms :-p

[NaCl_H2O]

My arrow crabs keep commiting suicide :( One backed into my RBTA the other into my Plate Coral. Then they just sit there. Tried to move them away, and they went back & eneded up dead.

I think I need an invertabrate shrink?

[CD]

A picture, better yet a VIDEO paints a thousand words...


Brett - *Awesome* videos, dude! Thanks for sharing :)



I think I need an invertabrate shrink?


LOL - Hmmm suicidal arrows. Vell, dit dey haff relationship problems wit der fadder as wee arrows?

Wendy

[Brett Wilson]

Thanks Wendy :)