Can a Sally Lightfoot catch a shrimp?

crazyzeus1

crazyzeus1

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Our Sally Lightfoot crab was carrying around a peppermint shrimp we just added to the tank (about two hours after we added him). The other two shrimp we added at the same time did just fine...
Can a Sally Crab catch a shrimp & eat him? Or did he die from the transport home & the crab was eating the dead shrimp?
Either way...nice $10 meal, Crabby!
 
farslayer

farslayer

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Yes, mine ate my cleaner not 20 minutes after I put the cleaner in. I dripped the shrimp for three hours and then lost him in mere minutes. I "exterminated" the sally and will add a new cleaner this week. I hate sallys, they get agressive when they get big.
 
smoney

smoney

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peppermint shrimp usually become a meal. mine did, i added him to my 50 gallon tank and didnt see him the nex day, he was gotten by someone.
 
crazyzeus1

crazyzeus1

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I'm so glad to hear that he probably wasn't dead because of our tank. The first Sally we had was timid & small & rather cute. But then we got a 2nd Sally on the same day as our 3 Peppermint Shrimp & liked him because he was bigger.
Well...bigger ain't always better! This guys was AGGRESSIVE..always out in the tank & sand, never timid. Would fight the Cleaner Shrimp for flakes of food. He is the one that was eating the Peppermint Shrimp. Turd.
 
haze123

haze123

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how big do they get cause I was thinking about adding a crab or two for my tank but didnt know what kind and what not?
 
mudplayerx

mudplayerx

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Originally Posted by haze123
how big do they get cause I was thinking about adding a crab or two for my tank but didnt know what kind and what not?
Buy some emerald crabs. They look way nicer than sally lightfoot crabs in my opinion, and eat bad microalgae.
 
shnabbles

shnabbles

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We added a sally light foot over a week ago... he is always eating algae from what i see.... hasnt been aggressive yet... including legs he might be 2-3 inches across.
the little B is FAST as hell... how would anyone ever catch this thing to get rid of it?
 
snipe

snipe

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They get big I have heard of ppl local (asked on a diffrent forum) who's sally lightfoot got around 7 inches and 3 years old. Mine is currently been in my tank for 7 to 8 months and is around 6 inches leg tip to leg tip. He ate one of my pep's for the simple fact he was gonna molt and was slow I moved him with the scewer (bad move he thought food) behind some rocks so the fish wouldnt eat him. My sally thought I was putting food down and snatched him up and ate him. I also had another disapear after molting but a molted crab or shrimp is fair game to anything. I also lost 2 other sally's after molting. But as said fish shrimp or other crabs will eat a nice soft invert.
 
batman1820

batman1820

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Originally Posted by Shnabbles
We added a sally light foot over a week ago... he is always eating algae from what i see.... hasnt been aggressive yet... including legs he might be 2-3 inches across.
the little B is FAST as hell... how would anyone ever catch this thing to get rid of it?
I added a horshoe crab and mine totally took it down. I tried catching it with a net, but everytime i stuck the net in, it ran off. I ended up just catching it with my hand lol. Just press down on it so it cant move then pick it up
 
snipe

snipe

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Probly for the best as horseshoes really arent a reef animal. They get to big for 90% of tanks and they get sucked up to pumps really easy. Any hoo on catching it with your hand wasnt that kinda freaky? As I woulda been feared to touch it just becuase it looks like a giant spider lol.
 
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