I hate my Sally Lightfoot!!!!

[townsdp]

My SLFC is about 4" across. He has massacred my snails, eats my xenias, and is pure evil. I am goin to try and put him in my fuge or trade him for something else where I got him. Anyone else had this problem?

 

[teen]

never had that problem, but mine used to pick up frags and get any algae off the bases then just place them in random spots. never really hurt anything.

 

[infalable]

You sure your sally is doing all that. I love mine. Never harmed anything. Is itr possible that another culprit is too blame. Maybe something nocturnal.

 

[townsdp]

Iv caught him eatin around five snails and pulled them away from him. He knocks them over and attacks them. He will fight for them too. Its funny. Today I watched him go over and start grabbing the xenia heads and pulling bits off of them. He is the devil.

 

[fbm]

Satan's spawn. Maybe have a talk with him and explain that he will be dinner if he doesn't stop.

 

[poniegirl]

Mine doesn't bother anything, that I know of...
But if yours eats xenia, can I borrow him?

 

[cannonman]

I just watched my little monster get into a serious fight with an electric blue damsel in my 75 gal.... WOW, they were really going at it, it was a brown/blue ball of furry for a couple of seconds.. fish lost several scales and has some marks on it and the SLF finally retreated to the LR. CRAZY HUH?

 

[seannmelly]

The guy I work with is trying to get his out of his tank. His sally killed a few corals, and he's not even that big. At work in our reef display we have one that is huge. 6" from leg to leg, and he doesn't bother anything.

 

[civileng68]

I dont think this is common but, I had a very large (abnormally large) Emerald crab chipping off end of my live rock, and going after my corals (tearing off xenia) and attacking snails and hermit crabs. I went on vacation and came back to find him in pieces in the middle of the tank. I almost think the 20 hermits in my tank waged war on him or something.
Oh yeah, my he picked on my blenny too.

 

[ophiura]

IMO, nearly all crabs, with the possible exceptions of porcellain crabs (but definitely including hermits, emeralds, arrows and sally light foots) are HIGHLY likely to cause problems in time. Crabs are opportunistic and generally omnivorous. If you add them, I would always consider them a potential risk to things you like.
Many shrimp would also fall into this - peppermints, CBS and the like.

 

[a2hotz]

I had one the would ninja backflip off rocks and things to catch little guppies I fed my dwarf lionfish...
The one in my tank now doesnt bother anyone and I rarely see him!
... I dont think Ive seen him in days! I should check up on that...

 

[nigerbang]

Originally Posted by civileng68
I dont think this is common but, I had a very large (abnormally large) Emerald crab chipping off end of my live rock, and going after my corals (tearing off xenia) and attacking snails and hermit crabs. I went on vacation and came back to find him in pieces in the middle of the tank. I almost think the 20 hermits in my tank waged war on him or something.
Oh yeah, my he picked on my blenny too.
I had one that would wait until my CCS would get close to the bottom of the glass and start tearing at him...It and a large hermit one time had the starfish flipped onto its top trying to eat if suckers in his legs..the EC took a ride to the septic tank..(about 6am and pissed decision)

 

[stanlalee]

mine never messed with any crabs or snails (mine only 2" maybe) but he had a taste for zoo's so he went back to the pet store. Hard as HELL to catch. Had to take out every single rock. luckily I didn't (and still dont) have a whole lot of rock.

 

[townsdp]

CAUGHT HIM!!! I walked in to the the trap I set.(specimen cup at angle to rock with shrimp pellets in bottom) He was at the glass just sitting there. I slowly slid the net up behind him and scooped him up. He is now surrounded by chaeto in the fuge. Now I can decide what to do with him. I am ninja!!! fear me!!!

 

[mudplayerx]

Originally Posted by teen
never had that problem, but mine used to pick up frags and get any algae off the bases then just place them in random spots. never really hurt anything.
It is very common for mature sally lightfoot crabs to turn predatory.

 

[a2hotz]

mine dissappeared!

I had my tonsils removed and the medicine gave me really weird bad dreams. I had a dream that my SLF crab had a ton of babies and they all crawled out and crawling into my bed to get warm... the next day after looking at my tank for a long time, I realized he disappered! I havent seen him since :scared:

 

[frankthetank]

Originally Posted by mudplayerx
It is very common for mature sally lightfoot crabs to turn predatory.
This is very true!

 

[f-22(c)raptor]

My SLF decided he didn't want to be friends with my coral banded shrimp after a few months and fought the shrimp, luckily the shrimp won and i havent seen the crab since. Don't know where it went, don't care. :notsure:

 

[renogaw]

i love my sally light foot. its the hardest worker in the tank. today though it jumped on my tongs i was using to pickup a snail that fell over. they are the same tongs i use for feeding the crabs/bta's so i'm not surprised, just was funny. my slf cleans my snail shells, cleans my tank, rock, climbs the glass, even rides snails up the wall to get at food it can't reach itself.

 

[townsdp]

OMG!!! This is freakin me out! I put my slf down in my fuge a week ago or so and he was the only thing in there. Today, I saw him sittin there and I poked him cuz he didn't move. He was dead I thought. He was whole, legs and all. So I pulled him out by hand and flushed him. Tonight I went to go check and there was my slf crawling around in the fuge! They were the same size- 4" or so and he is the only one I had. Do they molt their entire body? When I picked it up and shook it, it didn't fall apart. So, is this like invasion of the crab body snatchers or something?