Arrow Crabs (1 Viewer)

[HolyBanana]

Good or bad for a reef?
I've always been fascinated with them, however I dont know many people who keep these guys and how well they do in reefs.
If anyone has experience with these please post them here.

And Tom, I know what you are going to say.

 

[rxonco]

I had one for a while. He did well for a while but I finally got rid of him because he wouldn't leave my feather dusters alone. Stressed them out to the point that they both dropped their ring of feathers. I also had a problem with him picking at my star polyps.

Very cool crab though, I wish I could have kept him.

 

[Guest]

arrow crabs

I have kept a few arrows from the gulf and have had no poblems other than the arrows get coverd in coraline and die after about 1 year. I can get you one once the water gets a little warmer and we start diving again. How is the acro we fraged doing. Mine is doing real good at the very top of the tank in good flow.

 

[HolyBanana]

THanks that would be great.
My acro is doing great too. I have it at a point where there is alot of flow. Its getting darker and looks like it might start gainning some color. The polyps come out. I think that was a great idea what we did. We should do that again.

 

[Guest]

acro

Let me know when you a ready to do it again. I like making purchases that way. I would like to get a fourth person, and numnutz said he wanted in, let me know if you think that would be to many? I need to get your phone number. I saw that you might be scuba certified soon, let me know when and I will take you out to collect your own arrow crab.

 

[HolyBanana]

cool. I think of gettin certified sometime this summer. Thanks.
Sure we can get a team going for buying some nice SPS. We could save a buck or two this way and get more variety too.

 

[Guest]

Ask Sherri about her arrow crab.

 

[KarenHorn]

Should we tell you about our arrow that ate our neon, jawfish and cleaner shrimp? I definitely vote against them :-x

 

[Cakepro]

My arrow crab was an aggressive, fearless creatures. Mine got enormous and would walk around the house at night terrorizing us.

Oh, and he ate a great deal of my beautiful green pocillopora colony. :-x

RIP Pennywise the Arrow Crab.

~ Sherri

 

[HolyBanana]

I know tom made you say that.
Looks like no arrow crab for me. hehe