Emerald Crab Q

[bluewater]

Was wondering how many gallons per emerald crab?
I just bought a small one for my 10 gallon
long and the thing is probably one of the
coolest things I have ever seen. Crawls
around everywhere, eats all the algae off the
rocks and sand. Haven't seen it disturb other
crabs or anything. I love it. But was wondering
if I can put more in there?

 

[nm reef]

Hmmmmm...seems I heard somewhere that recommended rate is one per 10 gals......may be wrong there but that seems to be how I remember(thats my story and I'm stickin to it)......I do have 2 in each of my 55's....and I agree they are kewl dudes to watch and mine do a great job on nuiseance algae....and they've never been a problem to my other reef friends.....

 

[bluewater]

Hmmm... Guess I'll stick to this one for now
then. Even though I REALLY want to put in
another Anyway, I have scarlets in there
too. Are there any other crabs you would
recommend for the tank?

 

[cosmosbasement]

Blue-try it, get another one and see if they'll pair off. If they pair off they're great to watch. I have a 55 and I have 3 in there. The twins and the old guy......the old guy paired off with one of the twins. They hang out together all the time.
peace
doug

 

[bhav_88]

Get a Sally Lightfoot. They are (in my oppinion)the coolest crabs ever! They are always moving!

 

[bluewater]

No one ever has Sally Lightfoots around here
That's the one thing I've been looking for
until I got the Emerald. Do Lightfoots come
out in the light more frequent than Emeralds?

 

[andymi]

If you have fish in your tank beware of sally lightfoots. They like some other types of fish will sometimes go crazy and begin killing things in your tank. I had a sally lightfoot kill 6 fish before figuring out who it was. The things are fast and hard to catch if you ever want to remove them as well. After two days (almost 8 hrs each day) trying to catch mine I finally got lucky and was able to

[hr]
him after he killed about $100 worth of fish.
--Andy

 

[toddius]

Have 2 in my 55 reef. Becareful though as they will eat coraline algae if there is not enough for them. Used to have 3 but moved one to my refugium as they were eating to much coraline and I have 125 lbs in a 55gal.They are cool though. Kind of freaked me out the first time I saw one of them open the lower part of his shell and clean his insides.