I violated my own rule ... Arrow Crab?

[gear-head]

Yes, I succumbed to "ooh that's cool, gotta have it!"

I now have an Arrow Crab in my reef tank, and have since been reading about them eating small fish, small shrimp and picking at corals etc.

2 False Percs (1.5 and 2 inches)
1 Orchid Dottyback (2 inches)
2 Peppermint Shrimp (1.5 and 2 inches)
1 Scarlet Fire Shrimp (2 inches)
Various Corals.

So...should the Arrow Crab return to the LFS?

 

[revhtree]

You could watch it and see, but then it might be too late once he eats some good ole, finger lickin shrimp, or tasty coral.

If it were me, I would take him back. We put to much money into corals, and Live stock to let something eat them.

 

[austinsdad]

I had one in the beginning. Saw him trying to pcik up a cucumber. Freaked me out a little then. The following week, he had a electric blue hermit crab muching out. OK, maybe he found a dead one. The NEXT day, he was munching on a cleaner shrimp.

Back to the shop he went. Good luck!

Hey Rev. That a new title I see next to your name??? Congrats! Couldn't have happened to a better guy!

 

[Biggen]

Every time I go diving or snorkeling here in Panama City I have to resist taking these guys (among others) right off the rocks on the bottom of the gulf. They can work in a reef, but like all crabs, they are opportunistic at best. If it can catch a slow moving fish, it will.

 

[gear-head]

He's back at the LFS.

I shall not violate my own rule again.
I shall not violate my own rule again.
I shall not violate my own rule again.
I shall not violate my own rule again.
...

 

[Corty]

Hah! Good luck! It's got to be the easiest rule to break (or is that shatter?).

 

[dralarms]

Yea, Congrats, Rev. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

 

[flamingonhot]

how big do they get?

i just saw some at my lfs and they are small and awesome!

 

[austinsdad]

W/the total wingspan considered, I've seen'm in the LFS about 3" tall and maybe 4" wide - just standing.

 

[flamingonhot]

oh.... i guess they wouldnt do good in a 10