emerald crab-read!

[fishfatty]

how many emerald crabs should i put in my 75 gal. tank???? Im trying to get rid of the bubble algae. Thanks!

 

[fedukeford]

how much algea do you have?? they wont deffinatly take care of the problem, i have 3 i think in my 55 so for a 75...... id do like 5

 

[fishfatty]

heres the pictures...https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/219171/4-1-2-month-old-75-reef-pictures

 

[fishfatty]

I'd say alot

 

[kalied20]

I put three in my 24 gallon when bubble algea came about. They cleaned it up in about a week and started on all the rest of the algea. I like them now that I got some and feed them sheets of algea twice a week, since none grows in the tank anymore.

 

[miamireefr]

I can vouc that they are a good investment but I am not to happy about the fact they are just brut. I have found a few rearrangemnts of corals when I have woken up in the morning to check on the tank. Let's say I feeling like yanking them out at times.

 

[mrdc]

I used to like my emerald crabs but they can be a pain. They like to rearrange my small frags if they can pick them up so I had to glue all the frags down. They also like to pick at my dendro too often. Just remember it's hit or miss with them eating the bubble algae.

 

[dragonboy]

They only help if the bubbles are small if they are big they tend not to touch it. Bubbles are hard to fight against you probably better off just removing them manually since you don't really have much rock or that much coral in there you should do it manually.

 

[travis89]

I bought an Emerald crab to eat my bubble algae and it didn't touch it even though it was small.I ended up taking it out by hand just be sure not to pop them in the water they release spores and you don't really want more.