Keep or not

[alf1096]

My wife made an impulse buy of a sally light foot crab. Since then I have lost a fairy wrasse and two fire fish. In full disclosure the fire fish was bought in a group of 3. One went my dads tank and the others went to mine and none of them made it. So I am thinking it was how they were shipped or caught.

I want to buy some anthius but don't want them to be crab food. Should I go to the trouble of catching the crab before I add fish or is the fish disappearance a fluke.

I don't want to condemn the crab if it's not the problem but don't want to learn the hard way $$$$

[Daniel62]

They have been known to eat fish when they get larger. but when small they have been for me, alga eating machines.

[ejk17]

If you want to keep crab get Large adult Anthias. How big is the crab?

[alf1096]

Body is half dollar size

[ejk17]

Body is half dollar size

Decent size. Do some research on here. see what peoples experiences are...(most not good) I wouldnt keep him, fish are more important to me.

[alf1096]

It's not a matter of me wanting to keep him. I am fine with him going to the sump but I don't want to disassemble my tank to catch him. I have already tired a jar with no luck.

[Joke]

Good luck

[ejk17]

good luck

+1

[Buzz1329]

Ouch! When I was removing emerald (mithrax) crabs from my DTs (having been fooled by CUC vendors into believing that they eat bubble algae -- they do not), I found that I could not catch and remove them. I used another very simple method which you probably are already trying. Feel free to PM me for my one sentence method, which I can assure you is not going to be a revelation. It took time, careful observation of tank, and the cold blooded fury that comes from watching alleged BA eaters devouring LPS polyps, but it eventually worked.

Mike

[alf1096]

I got him out. Too about an hour and only removed one rock wall. He is in the sump

[fishchef]

They can be a problem. Best not to find out the hard way. We had one kill a clam.