Neat Critter

[Richard]

Has anyone tried keeping These (http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/product_info.php?products_id=301&parent_category=4&category_search=63&root_parent_id=4)

[caferacermike]

I caught several of them, or something that looked just like them when I brought back those coquina clams. Everyone I knew called them "sand fleas". Said the same thing about them sitting upright with tiny claws exposed, if you sat on them you could get a tiny pinch. Maybe something different. They did not live in my tank.

[Bill S]

Sand crabs or sand fleas. You can get them out of the sand in the surf on the East Coast by the thousands. My mother said she found one that my little sister had eaten, in her diaper.

[Richard]

Thanks for the info. I shared it on seahorse.org where they were thinking about trying them. Sounds like they are just trying to make a buck off something that isn't suited for an aquarium.

[txstateunivreefer]

its a mole crab that is what shore birds eat off the beach they have the small holes in the surf that bubble sand when the waves recede they can be captured with a suction sampler

[Bill S]

Shoot Chris, all you have to do is go down where the waves JUST start to break. You can go further up the beach and dig them 1 or 2 at a time. But if you go where the surf hits, you can sometimes get them by the handful.

[ismvel]

Over there in Pensacola my father in law has a wire bucket, we went to the beach and dug them bad boys up (sand fleas he called it as well) and that is what he uses to catch pampanos when he surf fishes....

I also tried to bring one home, and it didn't make it....

[JimD]

Yup, they make great trout and flounder bait, thats about it.

[txstateunivreefer]

if you want me to get you some LCRA has me working in matagorda at the new nature park and i can bring you some if you'd like for you to give it a try