Mushroom growing off snail...

[sillysidewinder]

Came home today after picking up my mandarin from Arthur (Guarda) and found one of my crabs with a mushroom attached to his shell lol. Anyways I thought this was funny, here are 2 pics (the pics are only O.K.)

 

[Levito]

Ha, maybe it's using is as protection, like the crabs that use anemones.

 

[guarda]

hehe love that new hat, is that Hermes?

 

[CheckSix187]

Thats so awesome! Mobile Coral

 

[ryangrieder]

thief!

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

has the hermit moved ? if so does it still stayed open

 

[bigdog1428]

I had a turbo snail with Xenia growing on it's shell ,, pretty cool

 

[ryangrieder]

i had a turbo snail with aptasia growing on it once...not cool lol

 

[sillysidewinder]

Lol that's like a traveling reef bomb

 

[skene]

I would remove that crab.. Albeit its amuzing but if the crab goes close to corals it may irritate or kill certain ones by that shroom. Especially or more particular leathers.

 

[xclusive252]

i would remove that crab.. Albeit its amuzing but if the crab goes close to corals it may irritate or kill certain ones by that shroom. Especially or more particular leathers.

+1

 

[ecchybridLE]

Saweet


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[sillysidewinder]

Remove the crab or just the mushroom off it's back? I thought mushrooms were non-aggressive...?

 

[skene]

Well... I'm going to say since you can't take the crab out of the shell... hopefully you have a sump to put the crab into.
Mushrooms are non aggressive... if you factor in that they do not have tenticles that will sting corals immediately, but they do irritate and will sting other corals.

 

[sillysidewinder]

I scraped it off today. There's a bit of mushroom left on there, but not much

 

[skene]

The mushroom will grow back from that little piece. :teeth: