Grr... Pest Crab

[Matty P]

I have a pest crab (or two) that has eaten every single coral and my 3 starfish in my 122 US gallon tank I have a crab catcher with some bait in it but my sneaky cleaner shrimps always steal the food out of it Anyone got any effective crab catching ideas?

Cheers

 

[AK77]

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Other than a crab catcher, your only other option is to hunt the little bugger down and grab him.

 

[Matty P]

Hehe he's a fast little bugger Lovin the pics

 

[idlefingers]

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Other than a crab catcher, your only other option is to hunt the little bugger down and grab him.

lol. very visual. One thing's missing at the end of the line though.. either as a celebration for catching the little bugger or as a consolidation prize for good effort followed by failure

 

[SkiFletch]

If you know the rock the little bugger is in, you can remove the rock and dip in magnesium and he'll run screaming from the rocks.

 

[Matty P]

If you know the rock the little bugger is in, you can remove the rock and dip in magnesium and he'll run screaming from the rocks.

Judging by it's size, there aren't very many rocks this crab could fit into

 

[Nix]

Now, I'm not for killing crabs. (Heck I like crabs), but you could always skewer it (stab it) with a sharp shish-ca-bob (sp) type thing.

But if its huge, I'd try to just grab it with my hands first.