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zippeay 
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 Topic: Emerald crab eat xenia???
Posted: May 20 2011 at 7:56am |
Anyone ever seen an emerald crab eat xenia? I bought a good sized Xenia a few days ago and when I got home from work I was admiring it. Then my emerald crab walked up to it and started trying to rip off one of the arms  ... So I scared him away and then this morning the xenia was laying at the bottom of the tank "I glued it to a rock yesterday". I'm not sure if the crab pulled it off or if my glue job didn't work but I didn't think those crabs would bother anything???
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 8:36am |
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Xenia and many soft coral won't glue but an elastic holds them until they attach within a week in healthy circumstances. There is a trick to it. I'd be happy to show you if you want to come by.
Anything will eat anything if it's hungry enough. If I'm not mistaken, your tank is new. The Emerald Crab is starving.
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 8:47am |
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My tank is about 3 mos old. I guess he could be starving but he's molted once and has grown a LOT since I put him in. He's molted at least once, there is plenty of algea in my tank but you may be correct. I wish I didn't live so far or I would come down. I just don't have a lot of time between work/school.
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 9:21am |
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My emerald started to eat my acro. I had to chase him away all the time. And I had plenty of hair algea. Eventually I put pellets in the tank and he ate that instead..... dirty rotten bugger died on me, after that and I had to get a fleet of snails to do the job he was suppposted to do in the first place
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 10:06am |
Snails are the solution to 95% of all algae control. I'm obsessed with never again having an Ugly Green Haired Mermaid.
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 10:34am |
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I agree with Mark. Snails are where it's at!
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 10:37am |
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I have 2 conchs and probably 20 astreaus, they are doing an awesome job. I also have about 10 nassarius "I'm probably way off on my spelling".
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Posted: May 21 2011 at 1:23am |
Well, tonight I was looking the tank over before I shut off the lights for the night and I noticed my Xenia was gone, again! I looked all over the stupid tank for it. Then, I noticed that crab had pulled it off the rock and hauled it up in between some rocks and was eating it like crazy  . So I picked up the rock it was on and pulled the crab off the xenia and put him in my sump  ! He did quite a number on my xenia though :( I think it will be ok though. I can't believe how hard that crab was to pull off the rock, I didn't think I was going to get him off, he's a strong little guy.
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