Can anybody give me advice on how to catch a couple of larger emerald crabs please. I would like to keep them alive if at all possible. It seems as if they have been catching and killing a few of my smaller fish and I want to get them out before I lose any more. Thanks for all advice.
Emerald crabs
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project5k
Reef enthusiast
well, you could try what we do at the coast, tie a light string/thread to a bit of meat, drop that in, let them grab on, lift up to about 3 inches under the water surface, get a net in and under them and then lift up past and above the water, when they hit the surface they generally let go and go right into the net..
dunno if it would work for that particular kind of crabs, but thats how we used to catch em when we were kids...
dunno if it would work for that particular kind of crabs, but thats how we used to catch em when we were kids...
yote
In Memoriam
Project beat me to it.Thats exactly what I was gonna suggest.:D
BTW
That method works great.
parrotchute
DUSTOFF MEDEVAC
Are you sure they are emerald crabs? Or that they are the culprits? Emerald crabs are pretty much algae eaters...
After watching the way this one attacked the shrimp bait I used (absolutely no hesitation), I'm very sure that he was the culprit. And yes, it definitely is an emerald crab. He's currently in my sump awaiting transport to the LFS this weekend. Only reason he was in the tank to begin with was because I had the same information that they eat mainly algae but this guy seemed to like meat as well.
Alexander
Reef enthusiast
too bad. my emerald crabs never caused problems. hell i cant even find em! they hide all the time...... always. and no mine never ate any noticeable amount of algae either!
AdeptMrSniffles
I have a Blue Thumb
If you have a large enough emerald crab they'll get snippy at fish. I don't have any now but whenever I had some they only seemed to snip off any oxygen bubbles on the LR from my skimmer. That was about it. The last one I had got his leg caught in between some LR and the nassarius snails, the cannibals that they are, took a liking to him REALLY quick. :(
