monsoon Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 During acclimation with a newly arrived SeaCrop order... One of the colonies on a LR fragment started to move... Low and behold there is a tiny crab (about 3/4 inch across) covered in.. a leather of some kind? Here's a shot as of five minutes ago, am doing an extra slow acclimation before putting this one in the QT tank (better pics later): Any ideas? BTW, very very pleased with the SeaCrop.com order so far. Thank you Mary! I'm just settling down after a day of fun, will shoot pictures tonight. Link to comment
monsoon Posted November 15, 2003 Author Share Posted November 15, 2003 Baby Decorator? Hmm... Link to comment
JohnnyMTB Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 Not sure about the crab, but those are zoanthids attached to it. Link to comment
MaryHM Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 Yep, definitely zooanthids on that guy. What we call our "colony zooanthids" Generally are green, pink, or blue. I'm not sure about how reefsafe the crab is though. I hope he is, cuz it would be a shame to have to dispose of him! Too cute! Link to comment
digitallinx Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 pass the duchie on the left hand side Link to comment
caja Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 That is the coolest thing ever. Link to comment
monsoon Posted November 15, 2003 Author Share Posted November 15, 2003 Thank you all for the ID, I couldn't believe it when the colony started moving... I took extra care to acclimate over about 2-3 hours, and have put this guy in the QT tank by itself. If not reef-safe I think it deserves a nano-species tank eh? Link to comment
monsoon Posted November 16, 2003 Author Share Posted November 16, 2003 Moved this crab to the main tank, worried that the QT tank was too sterile. It proceeded to crawl to its old rock and begin to molt... pulling out of the old shell, reversing back in-between shell and zoos, and the re-attaching the colony. Finally, its pushes the shell off the rock and starts eating it.. Link to comment
BlackSumbel Posted November 16, 2003 Share Posted November 16, 2003 Very cool. Very. That's so cute , too. Would've been amazing to see him walking around with the fully open zoos. -Sumbel. Link to comment
Crakeur Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 look above BS. opened zoos. nice yellow color on that crab. reefsafe or not, I'd keep it. cool as hell and odds are it won't look to snag other decorations as it already has a nice chunk of zoos. Link to comment
adinsxq Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 lol. that crab has good tastes in zoos. Link to comment
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