fanaglethebagle
Not-so-old Sea Dog
When they caught the clowns, did they spear them with small darts or just crawl on them?
Snails eating my corals
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seahorse1
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Merk, thats exactly what the crabs and snails are doing....they are waiting to form a pack and then attack the coral! It really was weird to watch. As soon as I added the crabs, within minutes they were all over the coral. It was kinda spooky the way they formed a pack and waited for each other to attack. It also looks like part of the tube on my featherduster is eaten away ( part of the worm is sticking out of the bottom). I am going to put some of the crabs in their own little tank, what do I feed them as there is no algae in that tank yet? The hermit crab food I saw at the pet store all said for land crabs, what about marine crabs? Will algae sheets work?
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seahorse1
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Well I just bought Shimek's book "Marine Inverts." And under hermit crabs, he says that they are known to eat some corals!! Wow....wish I knew that BEFORE i bought all the crabs! I did some research on other websites and never saw that about hermit crabs. And from watching a little bugger actually eat a polyp, I can vouch that this can defin happen. They are now out of my tank, and the coral has fully opened and looks great! Just wanted to pass the info along.
