Back again with yet another hitchhiker. This time, a crab. I seen him last night hiding in a rock. He was picking on the rocks, and was in a place where I have two spaghetti worms. They were not out, so I do not know if he ate them. Also, yesterday morning I had found one of my astrea snails shells empty right under where I had seen the crab last night. So I am pretty sure he must have had something to do with it. I am not sure what type of crab he is. I took two pictures, then went to look online to try to id him. When I went back to the tank to divise a plan to get him out, he was gone.
Any ideas what type of crab he is! Maybe a gorilla? He is small and light colored, maybe biege or brown. He was also hairy. The rock that I am finding all of these things on is florida
live rock. Also, I need to know what kind of trap to set up to get him out. I have another astrea snail and two hermit crabs, and I do not want them to get killed too!
Well I got him out. I took all of my rocks out because it appeared like he was killing my other snail. I found the rock he was in and submersed it in freshwater. I also found another giant whelk snail that I removed. I hope that these are the last of these two bad guys! Now I have to buy more snails! Poor little guys! I will post pictures of the two naughty hitchhikers later.
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Since there were no responses between your two posts I have merged them to save some space. Thanks! Ken