who or what killed my emerald crab?

[logger850]

:notsure: I found my emerald crab today upside down in the sand, last night I watched him eat and be merry, what could do this to him? In the tank, I have a few red legs, another emerald, a few blue legs, snails, a coral banded shrimp, a torch coral, a open brain, xenias, and a toadstool, and a percula, all in a 33, everything else is fine, who or what is the culprit? :thinking:

 

[speg]

Before you go all super detective.... is it a molt?

 

[logger850]

I don't think so, when I removed the body from the tank, it was very smelly, and not soft like a skin.

 

[fishieness]

CBS maybe? since you have corals im assuming you havent used copper.
maybe you have some type of preditor like a mantis? although i doubt they would leave any remains.

 

[batman1820]

I thought my emerald died, but a month later i found it in the tank! it was just a molt. Sometimes crabs just die not because they were killed.

 

[fishieness]

maybe another emeralde crab. or did you just get this one? if you didnt acclimate it or temp acclimate, it could have died.

 

[clown52]

I had mine for 4 or 5 months. Then one day it was just dead. I don't know if it got too stressed while molting or what. Speaking of Emerald crabs make sure you check out the Informational thread on them this month, very interesting!

 

[stanlalee]

Mine just died out the blue a few days ago. water is fine and nothing else died so I guess stuff just happens sometimes. Had him a good 8-9 months.

 

[mr.125]

I started my tank with with about a dozen...started to notice them and oher inverts dieing...then i started to hear that menicing "tink" in my tank.....DEATH TO ALL MANTIS SHRIMP!!!!!