Emerald Crab hard at work

[returnofsid]

So last night, Angie calls me into the room to watch one of our Emerald Crabs. Somehow, it'd managed to get up onto our DIY frag rack. I know crabs are able to swim, but have never witnessed it in our tanks, however, this is the only way it could've got where it was.
This is one of our larger Emeralds and it was dancing around all our coral frags, knocked one over...lol. Pretty soon, it started paying particular attention to a couple specific frags....sooo, getting a little worried, I started paying particular attention to it's claws and mouth....especially since one of those frags was a Zoanthid. Just wanted to make sure it hadn't developed an apetite for them. Turns out, it was eating algae off of the frag plugs. It even turned a few over to get to algae on the bottom. I grabbed my camera and snapped a few shots of it for kicks. Here they are:

Our Sixlined Wrasse felt he wasn't getting enough attention.

 

[roscoe]

That is really cool! Nice pics too.

 

[G&NSalty425]

I like the ones with his claws up in the air like he's posing lol.

 

[Ilovereef]

Very nice and cool set of pictures, Michael. I can see the motion too... Looks like he has lots of fun working on it and you have lots of fun working on the camera

 

[returnofsid]

LOL We do both enjoy our work!! Thanks all.

 

[tamarindthai]

very nice shot,

 

[Octupus]

i am really confused with emerald crabs. I blame them for my missing fish! maybe i should not.. innocent till proven guilty
Beautiful pictures indeed!

 

[returnofsid]

Octupus, don't be too confused. It has been known to happen, though I've never experienced it. I don't think it's very common though. I've had Emeralds in all of my tanks and currently have at least 6 in my 75, 2 are quite large. No problems at all.

You'll also get mixed reviews on how well they do with Bubble Algae. I had quite a problem from some rock I purchased from a fellow reefer. These guys did a great job of wiping it out!!