disaster

[anthropo]

i bought a blue spotted jawfish the other day. i've had him a week and all was going well. he set up a home, was eating, and wasn't afraid of my maroon clown pair. i came home from work today and what do i find? my jawfish being eaten by my teddy bear crab. i don't know what happened...this crab has been in my tank for at least 2 years and it has never caused me trouble...i have a royal gramma that likes to share his cave in the rock sometimes and a neon goby that hovers outside his tank on the rock all the time. maybe he just likes gourmet food haha.

 

[lkgrenegade22]

I haven't heard of too many people successfully keeping blue spotted jawfish long term anyways. However I took the crabs out of my tank after I kept having fish deaths and would find them eating them and have not had a death since.
Wierd thing is the BS jaw usually will defend it's burrow with quite a display by opening its mouth to a comical proportions. As far as why he died who knows?

 

[t316]

Although crabs can be a PITA, and they can go after some snails. But they are generally "opportunistic" feeders, meaning that...I doubt he killed the fish. Something else probably went wrong with the fish, so the crap was just enjoying a meal he found.

 

[lkgrenegade22]

Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/2902766
Although crabs can be a PITA, and they can go after some snails. But they are generally "opportunistic" feeders, meaning that...I doubt he killed the fish. Something else probably went wrong with the fish, so the crap was just enjoying a meal he found.
This is true most of the time. However I can without a doubt tell you the large hermits I had killed a few of my fish. They waited until they were sleeping in holes in the rocks or caves and over powered them. I caught them in action.