Emerald Crab

[Gietz]

I was just wonder what everyone's opinion is on theses little guy,  some say reef safe others say no. What's your thoughts, who's got them and wants to give me a review.

 

[teebone110]

I've got 3, reefsafe for the most part. As they get larger, they may start to eat corals.

Actually caught one the other night eating 3 zoa polyps. :-\

 

[IrishPride]

I have 2 in my tank.  I had a huge crab a while back I had to get rid of cause he would harass my goby and 6 line.  Smaller the better IMO.  I would only get one or two small ones. I've had my little guys since Sept. last year with no issues.

Fun to watch these guys with the moonlights on though.

 

[xxmurrxx]

I had a couple did good at eating bubble algae but they both randomly died. Not sure if they were starved out or something in my system gets to them.

 

[Gietz]

Ya I was going to pick them up because I noticed a small amount of bubble Algea on a rock,  it's either these or something else?!?!?!?! Any ideas?

 

[Gietz]

Does anyone know of anything else that would get ride of my bubble Algee? I got frag that had it and I'm starting to notice it all over!

 

[xxmurrxx]

Think is manual removal or the emeralds. Not sure if there is anything else.

 

[Gietz]

Ya it seems emerald crab is the easy and it might be an interesting addition

 

[JordanHurst]

Ive gotten a needle and sucked the juice out of them and it seems to not allow them to spread, just depends if you have 100 or 10, little time consuming suckin juice out of 100 but that worked for me I only had about 10 average size one