TNT276 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I got a frag of some zoas last night and the guy glued them to a shell, well anyway over night a hermit crab choose to switch his shell for the other with zoas. How do i get him out without damaging the zoas, im thinking needle nose pliers, but I'd like the crab to live. Link to comment
PaulE915 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I got a frag of some zoas last night and the guy glued them to a shell, well anyway over night a hermit crab choose to switch his shell for the other with zoas. How do i get him out without damaging the zoas, im thinking needle nose pliers, but I'd like the crab to live. hahah sorry thats pretty funny... youve now got mobile zoas... I would say break the shell....or throw down a fw dip maybe? just throwing it out there..i have no idea so thats just my $.02 gooodluck Link to comment
TNT276 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 FW dip wont make a hermit come out of its shell normally Link to comment
BLoCkCliMbeR Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 put it in a container w/ a bunch of other shells and wait for it to change Link to comment
Urchinhead Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Short of killing it you are going to be out of luck in the short term. Like someone said best thing you can do is offer it a bunch of other shells in a closed container that will allow water to flow through it until it moves. Link to comment
dutch27 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 If it's glue to the shell you could try to just pop the glue off. I do this with frag plugs all the time so I don't have to drill rocks to put plugs in and it looks better. You could also try taking a sharp razor and getting under the mat and peel the polyps off then glue them to something else. That is pretty damn funny tho. Let's some pics of the mobile zoa unit in action! Link to comment
highonfumes Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 i vote you mount the shell to rock outside of water. the zoas and the hermit will be able to take being out of the water long enough for the glue to bond. put it back in the water. when the hermit figures out he can't move he'll jump ship? mabe put a shell right by him so he has some place to go? does that sound crazy? Link to comment
carbon-mantis Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I saw a thread a few months ago where a guy immobilized the crab's shell, and after a bit of trying to get free, the crab just crawled out and swapped shells. Link to comment
TNT276 Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 anyway they were expensive polyps and i get hermits for 8 cents so he got the pliers!....... before we call PETA i just used them to break the shell up so hed abandon ship and heres the pic of him with his zoa-fro Link to comment
steviejitsu Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 8 cents? you work for a lfs? even then thats an impossible deal! yu can make reefcleaners out of business. lol jk Link to comment
TNT276 Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 8 cents? you work for a lfs? even then thats an impossible deal! yu can make reefcleaners out of business. lol jk ya i work for a lfs Link to comment
steviejitsu Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 so.... one of my fish stores charged me $3 for 1 hermit crab.... great haha Link to comment
TNT276 Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 so.... one of my fish stores charged me $3 for 1 hermit crab.... great haha we sell them for 58 cents...but im in south florida too we sell porcelain crabs for 2.58 Link to comment
steviejitsu Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 ahh, SoCal is expensive. the cheapest i found here was $1.50 and that was a 40 minutes drive Link to comment
plantarms Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 haha that's really funny, i guess you already solved it though. yeah i would work on saving the zoas before the crab Link to comment
StevieT Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Pliers work(ed) but cutting off the zoas would have as well. Link to comment
Guest nanoreefchris Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Pliers work(ed) but cutting off the zoas would have as well. I think I would just let the zoas be on the move for awhile, it would be pretty cool! They wont die either if they are shaded Link to comment
brandonroy Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Is that a Halloween hermit? I think those goes for $9.00 up here in the East Cost. Link to comment
scubasteve Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 should have just epoxied it to a rock....crab will leave when he cant move the shell... Link to comment
RockinSmall Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 crazy how prices vary from one state to another... here in iowa, hermits are $1 each and porcelins are $15 and ive seen fireshrimp routinely go for $40.. where we get big zoa rocks with 200 dragoneyes for $40 Link to comment
Grad Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 hahah sorry thats pretty funny... youve now got mobile zoas... I would say break the shell....or throw down a fw dip maybe? just throwing it out there..i have no idea so thats just my $.02 gooodluck From what ive read, F/W dip for inverts is a death sentence. Best bet IMO is toss more shells in and wait for it to switch out shells, then move the zoas to a rock. Link to comment
peasofme Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 does that lfs in florida ship? sounds cheap. im trying to find all the cheapest stores that ship. zoas on a hermit = awesome. probably would stress them out though. i wouldnt do it with a new frag. just breaking the shell a bit would make the shell undesirable to a hermit. Link to comment
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