ok so i just jumped out of my chair while watching my fish and almost grabbed an emerald crab right out of the tank and tossed him on the floor. then i realized i think that my angelfish was letting it happen...
i was watching my angelfish as i fed them, because he's rather new and i'm just starting to get him to eat. he's an eibli dwarf angel. i have about 4 emerald crabs in the tank, and its a pretty new tank. i don't have a qt tank yet because these are my first few fish, but i will be getting one soon.
anyways, i think my eibli angel is breaking out with ick, but then everyday, it seems the ich goes away. then a few days later, it seems like its coming back then it goes away. i have been meaning to get some meds, but i keep thinking that maybe i was wrong because everytime i look closely, it seems the ich is gone. i'm almost positive the ich rode in with a clown tang i got at the same time as the dwarf angel but the same thing happens, it seems the tang has ich then its just gone.
so here is my question, while watching my angel, i saw it swim up to an emerald crab and just sit there, i was like well wth is it doing. it just sat next to my emerald crab and swam kinda sideways next to it. next thing i know, the crab reaches out and kinda grabs its gill, i freak out and jump up. but the angel wasn't fighting it, then the crab pulls his claw away, and sticks something in his mouth and my angel swims off to the other side of the tank slowly(not panicking at all) and swims sideways with his other side facing a different emerald crab. this crab freaks out and runs away.
my question is, are my emerald crabs playing the role of a skunk cleaner shrimp here? are they eating ich off my fish? or is my angel just a retard and letting himself get eaten by crabs?
i was watching my angelfish as i fed them, because he's rather new and i'm just starting to get him to eat. he's an eibli dwarf angel. i have about 4 emerald crabs in the tank, and its a pretty new tank. i don't have a qt tank yet because these are my first few fish, but i will be getting one soon.
anyways, i think my eibli angel is breaking out with ick, but then everyday, it seems the ich goes away. then a few days later, it seems like its coming back then it goes away. i have been meaning to get some meds, but i keep thinking that maybe i was wrong because everytime i look closely, it seems the ich is gone. i'm almost positive the ich rode in with a clown tang i got at the same time as the dwarf angel but the same thing happens, it seems the tang has ich then its just gone.
so here is my question, while watching my angel, i saw it swim up to an emerald crab and just sit there, i was like well wth is it doing. it just sat next to my emerald crab and swam kinda sideways next to it. next thing i know, the crab reaches out and kinda grabs its gill, i freak out and jump up. but the angel wasn't fighting it, then the crab pulls his claw away, and sticks something in his mouth and my angel swims off to the other side of the tank slowly(not panicking at all) and swims sideways with his other side facing a different emerald crab. this crab freaks out and runs away.
my question is, are my emerald crabs playing the role of a skunk cleaner shrimp here? are they eating ich off my fish? or is my angel just a retard and letting himself get eaten by crabs?