fish fever
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Are these crabs safe to keep with pistol shrimp? I want to get one but afraid that the pistol shrimp in my nano will have it for lunch.
my boxer crab
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speg
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Originally Posted by petjunkie
Those are the flippin cutest!!! I want one so bad now. Good for a nano? Don't really know alot about them but swf never has them in and I have to order online.
Great for a nano. That way you can find it better too
Good luck trying to get one from saltwaterfish.com.... I have been on the mailing list FOREVER and when they finally got one in it was gone before I could buy it. lol
Those are the flippin cutest!!! I want one so bad now. Good for a nano? Don't really know alot about them but swf never has them in and I have to order online.
Great for a nano. That way you can find it better too
Good luck trying to get one from saltwaterfish.com.... I have been on the mailing list FOREVER and when they finally got one in it was gone before I could buy it. lol
alyssia
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Originally Posted by shrmnator
its kind of wierd. i have lots of rock work and i see it pretty much daily!
and the anemones are still with it!
how long did it take for yours to lose them alyssia?
IDK, when I put the boxer in it had the anemones. The next time I saw it was about 4 months later and it didn't have them anymore. I just saw him again a few days ago and I was able to catch him and put him in my 20 gallon.
its kind of wierd. i have lots of rock work and i see it pretty much daily!
and the anemones are still with it!
how long did it take for yours to lose them alyssia?
IDK, when I put the boxer in it had the anemones. The next time I saw it was about 4 months later and it didn't have them anymore. I just saw him again a few days ago and I was able to catch him and put him in my 20 gallon.
sinaloa213
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wow i hate boxer crabs. my uncle bought one and a few weeks later it started to damage the frogspawn and other soft coral. that would be the only thing abe to do that. he has a hippo tang an emporer angel and a fir shrimp. also a powder blue. do u also think it might be that.
wanabebell
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emporers are not reef safe
most of them will eat lps
most of them will eat lps
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ipinch
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I want one of these so bad......My tank right now has 2 clown, a blue tang, yellow tang, cleaner Shrimp, and a diamond gobby. I don't have any coral yet...just live rock. Can I put one of these cuties in already or should I wait.
biohazard
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It took my LFS 3 weeks to get one for me at 20 dollars. I put the tiny little creature in my 29 gallon. I saw him 2 times about a month ago and havent seen him since. I even re did some of my rock work and still havent seen him. I think my brittle star might have ate him?
Im getting rid of that brittle star if he did so I can get a new boxing crab. Do you thing the brittle might have done this?
ophiura
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It is possible, but I rarely see my boxing crab and I have 11 brittlestars in a 45 g. Now and then though - typically after dark - I do see it.
Without knowing more about your tank and the situation, it is hard to know. Brittlestars are implicated, unfairly, in a lot of things. Personally, I think it is unlikely. If it is a green brittlestar, it is a possibility certainly - but what do you feed the brittlestar?
Without knowing more about your tank and the situation, it is hard to know. Brittlestars are implicated, unfairly, in a lot of things. Personally, I think it is unlikely. If it is a green brittlestar, it is a possibility certainly - but what do you feed the brittlestar?
aelene
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I had my boxer crab for quite awhile but he has gone MIA and I haven't seen him in about a month now. Like Ophiura said, I used to see mine on a regular basis. I knew his little hide out spots so I could always hunt him down to make sure he was ok, plus I almost always saw him running around when I fed the tank. I'm not sure what happened to him
I saw reminents of him around the time he disappeared but assumed he molted. Now I'm thinking maybe he didn't....