Nemo_4_Ever Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 I have a crab, it has kinda red eyes, its a dull grey and browny colour its eyes are separated to each side of its shell. It has a red and white stripe underbelly and I caught it eating my bristleworm! I know bristleworms are bad any way but I was coming to getting it out, I saw it killing it with its legs (stabbing it) and eating it... :x Does this mean it will eat fish? Also I saw I had a shrimp just yesterday and I didn't know what kind it was, I found it half way up the powerhead... Dead... :*( Do I need to get this crab out? I have one non-hairy which was the one eating it and one that is hairy that I think ate the shrimp (it was in the same rock)? Also I have this white thing about [ ] that long and [ ] that wide that slides around my glass and then goes back into the sand? It's flat and it looks like the bottom of a snail. It's very slimy looking. It has a sorta darker tinge to the center of it and white around the outside. What could this be???? Link to comment
Nemo_4_Ever Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 P.S The crabs are the size of a 50c peice maybe a little bigger. It was using its nippers to squeeze the insides of the worm out and eat it.... Please tell me I have to get rid of it!:x :*( Link to comment
Nemo_4_Ever Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 <.....> that long and <...> that wide. I think its a flatworm, take a look at this pic here, it looks exactly the same. http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/SFB...2K/flatworm.htm And do I need to do anything about it? Link to comment
Help Please Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Do you have an arrow crab in your tank? Link to comment
Nemo_4_Ever Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 It could be actually? I'll have a look at some pics, thx Nah nothing like it, the legs are massive in those pics. My crab looks like ur everyday crab (shorter legs, scurries to the side) it has very sharp nippers whereas the other hairy one has sort of blunt ones, it eats the red stuff off of my rock. The LFS said that they're harmless but the other one I'm not too sure about. Link to comment
newbiecarlz Posted August 29, 2004 Share Posted August 29, 2004 crabs are normally scavengers, maybe your bristleworm was already dead when the crab started eating it? Link to comment
hhasty79 Posted August 29, 2004 Share Posted August 29, 2004 Bristleworms aren't necessarily bad anyway. They are generally detrivores (they eat dead stuff). I'd make sure there was nothing else going on in there. You'd think a shrimp could move out of the way of a crab easily enough, and to be honest, the same goes for bristleworms. They may have been sick/dying for some other reason. Link to comment
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