sally takes another victim!

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  1. totter0817

    totter0817 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    My sally light foot killed my foxface! My foxface was healthy and well when I went to bed last night, woke up this morning and sally had taken him under. My sally is pretty big- and my foxface liked to rest on the rockwork. I am almost positive he is the killer. I am so upset! I am going to have to get rid of him- stupid thing. Plus when I took my foxface out he was still struggling for his life- so I know he wasn't dead when the sally got a hold of him.


    RIP- My foxface!!


    Soon to RIP- my Sally!!!
     
    totter0817, Apr 23, 2008
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  2. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Good luck getting it out. Quoted from one of my books "These crabs are very fast and nearly impossible to catch, except in baited traps".
    Sorry for your loss. How big was the foxface in retrospect to the crab?
     
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  3. lunatik_69

    lunatik_69 Giant Squid

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    sorry for your loss.
     
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  4. baugherb

    baugherb Giant Squid

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    Sorry for your loss>>>>>
     
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  5. tazzy695

    tazzy695 Feather Duster

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    sorry for your losses
     
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  6. Tangster

    Tangster 3reef Sponsor

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    I watched a Sally lightfoot to take a small hippo out one night I had ordered 100 of them all small like 1inch or so and I was missing some and I set a infra red Sewer Camera up and a VCR ! Busted and I also had a Serpent star to eat clams and a Purple tang that was caught eating a clam.. All where sent to eat Davy Jones at his Locker :)
     
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  7. baugherb

    baugherb Giant Squid

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    Lmao!!!!!
     
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  8. BaxterS80

    BaxterS80 Pajama Cardinal

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    I am sorry for your loss. We have a rather large one in our tank with no problems, so far...Are you sure the Foxface wasnt sick. I know I had a Kole Tang last month that was perfectly fine one day, and died the next...:(
    I had no problem catching a Sally...How I did it was at night, when I was feeding our Orange Sunshine coral using a long feeder the crab came right out to eat, I was able to take the feeder and hold him down and then net him out...
     
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  9. tazzy695

    tazzy695 Feather Duster

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    i have heard mason jar in the rocks works well for catching crabs if he dosn't come out in plain site
     
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  10. glblguy

    glblguy Spaghetti Worm

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    Buy a flame hawkfish, your sally won't last long. I had one, and within a day of getting my flame hawkfish (which I LOVE btw), the sally was a few fragments on the sand.
     
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