My New Crab

My tank has been looking crappy and barren for a while, after all, its a 55 gallon with just one blue damsel. So, at the beach, i got 2 more warty anemones and 2 stone crabs, one is a huge female, probably close to or over 2 lb! the other has like a 2.5" carapace is unsexed. They are incredibly strong trust me, i got on the claw side of them at the beach: OUCH! They have completely toppled my rock stacking and have scattered like 2 pound rocks all over the tank. Trust me, she's a lot bigger than the pics make her look.

 

*** haha that thing is huge

 

bye bye blue damsel......crabby food! what are you going to do with them once you want to put something else in there?

 

dinner?

 

They had one of those at a local LFS here, with a blue damsel in with it, for years. Thing was way bigger than yours, so be prepared.

 

looks painful

 

Oh it was, at one point, i tried pulling the claws apart once i thought he was fatigued, then he clamped down harder, i truly thought it was going to break the bone in my thumb, ended up just having him hang off my hand for like 20 minutes. I think she would have broken my pinkie though. Felt like freakin bolt cutters on my hand. I got really lucky that:
-she didn't get me with the tips of his claw
-she got me on the thumb
-she got me with the big dull claw, not the small sharp one

Also, I think she just mated with the little one last night, because i thing she might have a bunch of orange eggs on her belly now.

 

Lol my turtle did that once for an hour. Thats cool about the eggs.

 

Yep, the big one(that i named Stonie), definitely is holding eggs, and the little one is definitely a male.

 

OMG shes is HUGE! I would be running around screaming more girly than i am if she was attacked to my thumb good gosh! I def cant wait for updates on ur crabs it seems like a pretty cool tank!!!!