Crabs are dying...

[marcog]

Hi there,
Last week my emerald crab went belly up in the bottom of the tank. Today, I noticed that my sally light foot crab is also gone. When the emerald crab came in the mail he was missing one claw, I just assumed he couldn't feed himself enough and starved to death. Now that another one has died, I am back to wondering about the emerald crab.
I do have a yellow tree gorgonian that something has been taking chomps out of? For the crabs, I feed them sinking pellet food which they both have eaten and they were always rumaging around on the rock and eating? What is the best food to feed crabs with?
Thanks for the help,
Marco

 

[clarkiiboi]

How long have you had them? If recent additions, acclimation could be a reason to rule out or not.

 

[pandafish]

I have lost two emerald crabs my hermits and my coral banded shrimp are fine.
Any thoughts?

 

[pclown]

How long did it take before they died after you put them into your tank?

 

[pandafish]

The first one was there two monts the second about a month died about two weeks apart.
they came to me in some live rock as hitch hikers.

 

[clown52]

I think Emerald crabs just die sometimes. I have had two that did. One I had for about 6 or 7 months, the other for 3.

 

[pfitz44]

whats your water parameters?? exp. SG?

 

[pandafish]

Sorry for posting in an old thread I'm a Newbie.
thanks for your replies, FWLOR 45 gal with a 20 gal fuge
SG is 1.021
amonia 0
NO3 20
NO2 .05
PH 8.2
KH 145.3
oh and my temp is 77.8
tank is about 4 months old and the crabs died about two weeks ago, was thinking of putting in a new one but don't want to kill it.
One yellow tang, one bi-color psudochromis, a manderine 5 hermits a coral banded shrimp a frag of star polyps, one mushroom one zoo and a whole slew of aspatia I can get rid of.

oh and yes I

know about Joe's juice