deadeye1
03/11/2007, 06:35 PM
Greetings all,
My daughter got my old 55 gal tank when I moved up to a 120 gal reef. She has made in into a predator tank, one dwarf lionfish, one fu manchu lionfish, one snowflake eel and one lawnmower blenny (large). She has a few corals one of them being a small stalk of the hand waving Xenia. The problem is it attached to a small shell. Well that wasn't the problem. My daughter was feeding the killers one evening and noticed the Xenia was gone off the live rock. Then she caught a glimspe of it heading around another piece of liverock. Moving to fast, she took a look and found a crab had switched shells and is now wearing the shell with the Xenia on it. So far it's traveling pretty good, still waving.
My questions, Is it good for the coral or should I stop the hitchhiking. If it is bad, Do I wax the crab? or suggestions on how to separate them.
Thanks
Tony
My daughter got my old 55 gal tank when I moved up to a 120 gal reef. She has made in into a predator tank, one dwarf lionfish, one fu manchu lionfish, one snowflake eel and one lawnmower blenny (large). She has a few corals one of them being a small stalk of the hand waving Xenia. The problem is it attached to a small shell. Well that wasn't the problem. My daughter was feeding the killers one evening and noticed the Xenia was gone off the live rock. Then she caught a glimspe of it heading around another piece of liverock. Moving to fast, she took a look and found a crab had switched shells and is now wearing the shell with the Xenia on it. So far it's traveling pretty good, still waving.
My questions, Is it good for the coral or should I stop the hitchhiking. If it is bad, Do I wax the crab? or suggestions on how to separate them.
Thanks
Tony