Gorilla Crabs!!!!

[DREUTZ]

I noticed 2 little crabs in colonies at an LFS one time and thought they were cool. Then a couple weeks later I went back and they were still there so I asked the guy if they were acro crabs and if they were safe and he assured me they were fine. $20 for the two "acro" crabs which I thought was steep but I impulsively had to have them. Well, they were definitely gorilla crabs (black tipped claws, tan color with hair all over them). I was able to catch one once I started seeing damage to my SPS, but the other stays in this little hole that I can't get to. He has done lots and lots of damage to my SPS killing a few frags and harming a couple more, and I need to get him out asap.

Any ideas/techniques on how to remove him? He's about the size of a nickle.

Animal lovers please do not read: I tried just ripping him out using some forcepts with no regard to his safety as well as just trying to crush him with the tip of the forcepts and still no luck?

 

[THEDLO]

dont try to rip him out cause its very unlikely that u will get hes main body. just pull the rock or whatever hes in out of the water, and dip it in and out till it knows where to water is going and tries to get to it. or just flush him out with RO water. i do the last one if its in a crack with one way out.

 

[DREUTZ]

I can't take the rock out without collapsing my whole setup.

 

[THEDLO]

same here! lol but thats the only way ull get him....or....i do remember reading that if u place a cup in the sand with food in it, he would climb in to eat but no be able to get out cause of the frictionless surface.

 

[Mikei70]

Can you spear him with a metal skewer or something?

 

[Imbarrie]

That is what I did. Left him to rot in the rock.

Didnt throw my parameters off.

 

[Staaan]

Hahaha.. Harpoon his a$$.

 

[NL146]

...do u knows where to water it going and tries to get to it...

I think I understand :shhh:

 

[ChickenKing]

I think I understand :shhh:

That makes one of us....

 

[THEDLO]

I think I understand :shhh:

hahaha i fixed the errors! fml it was halloween yesterday guys....:splitspin

 

[DREUTZ]

I used instruments of death (chopsticks) to ice that fool.

 

[ChickenKing]

Please tell me you ate it !!! Good work !

 

[Mikei70]

"Good job, Danielson."

 

[Staaan]

Awesome bro!

 

[Will C]

i do remember reading that if u place a cup in the sand with food in it, he would climb in to eat but no be able to get out cause of the frictionless surface.

Correct - it is pretty easy to catch, just use a 16oz beer glass with a piece of raw shrimp in the bottom, tilt it a little against the crab's hiding spot. You'll have it caught in the morning. Good luck

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Correct - it is pretty easy to catch, just use a 16oz beer glass with a piece of raw shrimp in the bottom, tilt it a little against the crab's hiding spot. You'll have it caught in the morning. Good luck

Day late and a chopstick short lol

Should also stab the fish store guy that told you they were reef safe

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Well you could have always tried to get him to latch onto your cool new gloves and pull him out. lol Atleast u got the lil fawker

 

[DREUTZ]

Day late and a chopstick short lol

Should also stab the fish store guy that told you they were reef safe

haha yeah I need to go in there one of these days. I stopped going since that happened but I'll be visiting him soon... I had to execute the little guy. He ate too much SPS to live.

 

[DREUTZ]

"Good job, Danielson."

Sick pic haha!!1 Coincidentally, my name is Dan too lol