Emerald Crab????'s
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tdog7879
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Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/2875785
Is there something that you have to do to keep an emerald crab? Everyone I have had has died!!
how did you introduce them?
http:///forum/post/2875785
Is there something that you have to do to keep an emerald crab? Everyone I have had has died!!
how did you introduce them?
florida joe
Well-Known Member
how do you know they died
fish are good
Member
maybe they just molted is that possible if so they look very real.
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morrowss
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I hand feed mine...he hides in a hole on the live rock and i put a clip of seaweed out for my tanks when they are done there is still a strip of weed left in the clip and i just reach over by the hole and he comes out and takes it...works out good for him
doggiepuffer
Member
Just a note, but when Emerald's hit "puberty" they can get every agressive and destructive with corals.
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cavan
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I know this thread is getting a few weeks old but the problem was not answered. I have the same one. I have had saltwater tanks for 5 years and can grow corals, fish do great, and i have had 5 tanks within those years and i never have been able to keep those crabs. I have bought from many places and they always live a week or so then die? The longest i have keep any crabs or shrimp was a coral banded; he lasted about a year? I know there not molts because i cut them open and mashed them to make sure there was meat inside; nasty i know! Why does everything in my tank do fine but invertabrates?
saltygerman
Member
Originally Posted by cavan
http:///forum/post/2891503
I know this thread is getting a few weeks old but the problem was not answered. I have the same one. I have had saltwater tanks for 5 years and can grow corals, fish do great, and i have had 5 tanks within those years and i never have been able to keep those crabs. I have bought from many places and they always live a week or so then die? The longest i have keep any crabs or shrimp was a coral banded; he lasted about a year? I know there not molts because i cut them open and mashed them to make sure there was meat inside; nasty i know! Why does everything in my tank do fine but invertabrates?
What are ur water parameters?
http:///forum/post/2891503
I know this thread is getting a few weeks old but the problem was not answered. I have the same one. I have had saltwater tanks for 5 years and can grow corals, fish do great, and i have had 5 tanks within those years and i never have been able to keep those crabs. I have bought from many places and they always live a week or so then die? The longest i have keep any crabs or shrimp was a coral banded; he lasted about a year? I know there not molts because i cut them open and mashed them to make sure there was meat inside; nasty i know! Why does everything in my tank do fine but invertabrates?
What are ur water parameters?
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cavan
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I know everyone is going to shoot me when i say this but i don't have a test kit anymore. a friend of mine started salt water and i let them use my kit. I only have a 29 gal tank now so i change 1/5 the water every water change. I do check the salts to make them right. I
texasmetal
Active Member
Just throwing these out there...
Tap water?
Sufficient algae to graze on?
Predatory hitchhiker?
Tap water?
Sufficient algae to graze on?
Predatory hitchhiker?
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cavan
Guest
I don't know what there preditors are. They are all in one piece when i pull them out?!? I don't know what the water temp does.....I know not very good to not be better informed of my own tank. I bought a nano cube with hqi and it all came as a combo; a exspensive combo at that; there is four fans on it pulling air when the hqi lighting comes on. Maybe i shouldn't do so but i assumed they designed a tank that would keep its temp even; they thought of everything else. Its a really nice set up with double pumps on a wave maker setup. Even has a biult-in protien skimmer that does a ok job for a air stone design. There is planty for them to eat; that is why i bought them. The hair alge is getting a little much. It was contained in a place on the sand and i left it there to use up extra nutriantes; now it is in my zoos; i don't know if i made a good choise with that one. I know this sounds bad but if i have a 29gal tank with a brain coral, about 80 polys of zoos, star polys, a kyna tree, tourch coral 3 heads, paggota cup, and a toad stool all doing good no load from them all; i let them eat from the water table i just change there water. The tank has been running for 2 years do you think i should have a problem with my levels?
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cavan
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Ol yea i do use tap water from a well to use in the tanks. I do plumbing for a living thought and i have two purifications systems on it. Our whole house has clean water. It runs through a sediment filter first to take all the minerals out and micro trash down to 20cc's then a carbon to stableize it and further purify it. I don't know what to do though so ya'll tall me what to do next. I just hate to go getting a bunch of stuff and i really don't want to add chimicals to the water. I like thats to work natural
texasmetal
Active Member
Well water. That's most likely your problem. Pollution contamination. Phosphates and no telling what else. Maybe the sediment filter isn't taking out all the bad stuff, and the carbon can only do so much. That would cause the hair algae to keep going. When you're doing water changes you're probably adding a bunch of crap to the water, instead of removing it. This is why RO water is THE ONLY way to be absolutely sure you get PURE water.
You should take a sample of your water to a LFS and have it tested for everything. You should also have the TDS (total disolved solids) checked. TDS of any water you add to your tank should be at least under 10 TDS, preferably 1.
As the old saying goes, anything worth doing, is worth doing RIGHT. Why spend the money on beautiful corals and then go cheap on the maintenance?
You should take a sample of your water to a LFS and have it tested for everything. You should also have the TDS (total disolved solids) checked. TDS of any water you add to your tank should be at least under 10 TDS, preferably 1.
As the old saying goes, anything worth doing, is worth doing RIGHT. Why spend the money on beautiful corals and then go cheap on the maintenance?
robertmathern
Active Member
You know my throwing it out there my brother got one as a hitch hiker on a rock. He thought it died just like you stated all limp and floating. He took it out but I told him to put it back in since his tank had not cycled I figured it would cycle the tank. So he tossed it back in and beleive it or not the next day it was running around the tank like nothing happened. Then molted I dont know if that had anything to do with it.
robertmathern
Active Member
Originally Posted by TexasMetal
http:///forum/post/2894555
Well water. That's most likely your problem. Pollution contamination. Phosphates and no telling what else. Maybe the sediment filter isn't taking out all the bad stuff, and the carbon can only do so much. That would cause the hair algae to keep going. When you're doing water changes you're probably adding a bunch of crap to the water, instead of removing it. This is why RO water is THE ONLY way to be absolutely sure you get PURE water.
You should take a sample of your water to a LFS and have it tested for everything. You should also have the TDS (total disolved solids) checked. TDS of any water you add to your tank should be at least under 10 TDS, preferably 1.
As the old saying goes, anything worth doing, is worth doing RIGHT. Why spend the money on beautiful corals and then go cheap on the maintenance?
The only way I see tap water causing this is if there is copper in your water check for that. But alot of people have emrilds in there tanks with tap. Yeah rodi water is better but it can be done.
http:///forum/post/2894555
Well water. That's most likely your problem. Pollution contamination. Phosphates and no telling what else. Maybe the sediment filter isn't taking out all the bad stuff, and the carbon can only do so much. That would cause the hair algae to keep going. When you're doing water changes you're probably adding a bunch of crap to the water, instead of removing it. This is why RO water is THE ONLY way to be absolutely sure you get PURE water.
You should take a sample of your water to a LFS and have it tested for everything. You should also have the TDS (total disolved solids) checked. TDS of any water you add to your tank should be at least under 10 TDS, preferably 1.
As the old saying goes, anything worth doing, is worth doing RIGHT. Why spend the money on beautiful corals and then go cheap on the maintenance?
The only way I see tap water causing this is if there is copper in your water check for that. But alot of people have emrilds in there tanks with tap. Yeah rodi water is better but it can be done.
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cavan
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i will give you the more i chage the water the more the alge seems to grow. I know that is supposed to be a way to keep it down. I will take a sample and check it and will start using some or water again. I have the filter system already i just haven't plumbed in a way to use it in the house where in now. When i was in the city i used it all the time because of the additives they used. it is said to be a plumber and it would take me about 20 minutes and 5 buck to get it working on this house and i have been soooo busy i haven't done it......lazy??????? i really only want them to clean up the hair alge anyway; if i could get that gone i wouldn't even want them!!!!
