2 Arnold Crabinators! aghhh!

Determining the sex of crabs.

 

We have a crab in the trap this morning and it's a male. He doesn't seem very happy that his evil plans were foiled. I'm going to drop him off at the LFS today and see if I can get a shrimp out of the deal.

 

Had mine for 3 month. He molted about month and a half ago and indeed doubled in size.

Had no problems until about a week ago. Now I see him eating GSP and Zoanthid polyps and he been definitely moving aggressively towards my diamond goby a few times.

Think mine is going back to LFS too.

 

So last night as an experiment I put some seaweed on the clip, and within seconds both of mine we are all over it. One of them now just climbs onto the clip instead of tearing it off and running. He just climbs up and munches. I reached into the tank and moved the clip with him attached! Didn't even phase him. so I'm confident that this will be an easy removal when I want to.

As soon as I see them going after coral, they are outta there, but it seems if I continue this seaweed feeding they wont bother anything else. So I think in trying to figure a way to capture them, I ended up training them to feed at the same spot and not bother anything else.

 

I always make sure mine get food (if I can find them) every time I feed. They wave at me now when they're hungry & they see me. I saw one one time pick a piece off a zoa polyp and stick it in its mouth. I blasted him with the turkey baster and haven't seen him do it since LOL.