Bad crab!

[SeattleDarko]

OK so I have 2 emerald crabs, I got a small rock with a few corals on it last night and the crab has already started picking at it? So I put some seaweed on a clip and set it down right in front of the crab, I moved the coral rock to a new location. This morning I checked and the crab was eating the seaweed that is good! Well is my crab just hungry? Or should I be worried, I got them to help with an algae and they have done great at it most of it has cleared up. But is this a sign of things to come?:grumble:

I was going to get some hermit crabs this weekend but I don't know this is changing my mind!

here is the new coral rock (before) The crab took a chunk out of the green stripped.

 

[daugherty]

i dont think that they will hurt the coral they are prob just picking at some alage on the rock.

 

[scummy]

Is that bubble alage under the green mushroom? If so, It was probably going after that.

 

[Bifferwine]

Good catch by scummy. They are known to have an affinity for bubble algae and it looks like that's what you have right underneath your shroom.

 

[dustin_P74]

yeah, the emerald is going after that bubble algae under the green mushroom and there is some algae i can see right behind the xenia on the rock

 

[Oscarsdad608]

Yup...

 

[yote]

Yep,The crab was just after the algae thats close to those corals.
BTW,Thats a nice looking rock.2 types of xenia and 2 types of mushrooms.Super nice:D

 

[SeattleDarko]

Cool that is good to know!

 

[SeattleDarko]

BTW,Thats a nice looking rock.2 types of xenia and 2 types of mushrooms.Super nice:D

ya I was pretty stoked with it. The guy I got it from has a few other things I am in line for too. :)

 

[JAG107]

crabs eating bubble algae is a wonderous thing. Nice shrooms, BTW!

 

[Piggy]

Nice rock. I have all of them corals. Mine were about the same size when I got mine. I started with one of them red mushrooms and now I have over 14. Plan on fragging it. The xenias multiply like rabbits. The stripped mushroom also multiplies pretty quick.

 

[SeattleDarko]

That a good deal, as I am finding out trading material is a really good thing to have! :)

 

[lightcs4]

Yep, as others said, the emerald crab will likely eat any bubble algae. They don't grow too big and *usually* don't hurt your fish or coral.