Yikes! Little help with a Ric please?

[uneverno]

So I got a cute little green Ricordea the other day that had been cultured on a snail shell. I epoxied the shell to LR, opening down so my hermits wouldn't get to it, but...
The epoxy didn't hold, and it came down overnight. I now have a "decorator crab" toting my ric around the tank.
I'm new to the coral aspect of the hobby - any suggestions on how to coax the coral off the shell, and then how do I attach it somewhere else - superglue?
Thanks,
Emil

 

[swimmer4uus]

That's probably not going to be the easiest option. The better option will prob be to get the crab out of the shell. What I would do is epoxy the edge of the shell to a rock, so that the crab can get out, but yet that the shell is DEFINANTLY not moving. Then provided him with another shell close by. When he leaves, close up the whole

 

[uneverno]

Thanks - kinda my thought as well.
As it turns out, he didn't like the shell, and went back to his old one. I immediately plugged the ric's shell w/ epoxy.

 

[swimmer4uus]

haha, linteresting story though. would have been cool with a crab running around with a ric on his back....

 

[kromix]

For future reference, no you can't glue the ric down, its feet needs to be attached to something like a rock or in your case the shell then glue the shell or rock to something........
And I would have hoped my crab would have stayed in, would have been cool to have a floating ric in my tank... lol Who was it that glued zoo's to a hermit crabs shell? thats cool lol

 

[uneverno]

lol - I have no idea. My red shrooms were cultured on shells too. They're either cultured locally or at LFS itself.
Not so sure that's a good idea