Crab ate my Blenny?

[n.smith360]

I recently downgraded my 200l tank to a smaller one, only taking 2 clowns, 2 fire shrimp, one turbo snail and about 10 small crabs.
What I didn't know was the I had a larger crab that must have been in my old tank for years attached to some live rock. Somehow he managed to hitch hike into my new tank.
I purchased a blenny to accompany the clowns about a month ago. A few days ago he went missing... I have just done a water chance and knocked a rock over, the large crab in the pictures came running out with what looked like a little piece of blenny skin on him. Is it possible he ate him as it's no where in the tank?


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[Sniperhank]

Hard to see the crab, but crabs in general are opportunists. It is much more likely that he cleaned up the corpse. A crab like that wouldn't be able to nab a healthy fish, more likely stressed or sick.

[nanoreefz]

looks like a teddy bear crab, or one of those hairy crabs. They are definitely a pest


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[n.smith360]

Thanks, I'll definitely get rid next time I visit my LSF.


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