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    Posted: April 22 2005 at 9:08pm
Within the last day or two my arrow crab has been hanging out down in the back behind a few rocks were you can't see him so well but enough to see what he's up to that sneaky b@stard.  nothing has changed for water perameters and he still comes out to eat so i'm not really worried about his health.

i wouldn't think anything of it except he has started a peculiar behaviour of "stacking" rocks.  i can't get a picture of it except to say he's started shoveling some of the bigger shells and things into a pile that is maybe the size of a small golf ball.  anyone have any idea what he might be doing?

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Building a castle?
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crabs want to hide. He may be getting bugged by other fish and wants to build himself a hidy hole....
I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.

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Sounds interesting!  Reef critters do the funniest stuff... 
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I thought he might be "hiding" as well, but he is probably 8 inches wide with those big spidery legs so it'd have to be a BIG pile.  as is its not very large but he's still keeping at it...  i'll try and get a few pictures so you guys can see this wierdo behavior.

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