Help with Crab!!!!

[Grimreaperz]

Hey so a couple weeks ago I noticed a molt....and I have only seen him once briefly he looked to be brown and spotted couldn't get a good look at the pincers....but I recently put a Frag of Zoas on the rock work by where I saw him and today 90% of the zoas are gone from the frag....so I am assuming he went to town....

How can I lure this thing out and catch it....I haven't seen him since that day but I know he is in there somewhere...I would gladly put him in my Fuge just really want him out of my DT...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[94Roarge]

Hey so a couple weeks ago I noticed a molt....and I have only seen him once briefly he looked to be brown and spotted couldn't get a good look at the pincers....but I recently put a Frag of Zoas on the rock work by where I saw him and today 90% of the zoas are gone from the frag....so I am assuming he went to town....

How can I lure this thing out and catch it....I haven't seen him since that day but I know he is in there somewhere...I would gladly put him in my Fuge just really want him out of my DT...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Pictures! ;)

 

[Vincent100]

Place a glass up against the rock work , make sure it leaning .. so he goes in and can't get back out .....Bait it with a bit of shrimp ,prawn
I must add do this when your fish are asleep otherwise they just swim off with the bait

You might get a few hermits as well but sooner or later you will get him

 

[Grimreaperz]

Awesome I currently am doing rock maintenance (vertimid snails) and have all of my rocks out of my tank I'm going to try and find him....if not this will be the route!

 

[Grimreaperz]

Pictures! ;)

If I could get them they would be up trust me .. I have only seen him once and he just scurried off and haven't seen him since.....

 

[94Roarge]

If I could get them they would be up trust me .. I have only seen him once and he just scurried off and haven't seen him since.....

As long as we can see it when you do manage to catch it [emoji14]

 

[94Roarge]

Possibly even try a bit of stocking with shrimp or similar in it at night, and lure him out, he may even get stuck on it trying to climb/get the food!

 

[Grimreaperz]

Yeah no luck so far.....will be trying the glass with a cube of my DIY fish food in it tonight....hopefully I get the sucker...

 

[Grimreaperz]

Wish me luck.....if this doesn't work I will try something smaller only thing we had that I trusted to put in the tank though....

 

[Vincent100]

Good luck hope you get him :)

 

[Grimreaperz]

Good luck hope you get him :)

Not yet.....one more night and will try something different container....

 

[Grimreaperz]

Okay so saw this in the front of my tank laying on the sand bed today....after I saw a tentacle from my anenome floating around.....

Can anyone I'd from this molt? Looks like black claw :(

 

[Vincent100]

Maybe a red mithrax crab ????
Iv got a big black one in my tank
Classed as reef safe but you just never know with any crab

 

[Grimreaperz]

Yeah I have been doing some research the molt more closely resembled a Gorilla Crab.....with the black tipped pincer

 

[Roboson]

Yeah the smooth carapace and black tipped pointed pincers makes me think that your crab may not be friendly.

 

[Grimreaperz]

Yeah the smooth carapace and black tipped pointed pincers makes me think that your crab may not be friendly.

Pretty sure you are right....I am positive he has been nipping my zoas..

 

[Roboson]

It's possible, but they're more likely to kill hermits or snails, but definitely possible for them to go after soft corals. If you manage to get him out I'd love to see him, it looks like it may be a pretty one.

 

[Grimreaperz]

Yeah soaking a cube of my DIY fish food in some selcon for a but going to put it in a baby bottle tonight and hopefully I will see it in the AM