My emerald crab eats hair algae, I have proof!

[BlennyBabe]

I was just wantching my tank and I was able to locate the emerald crab that I bought yesterday. Hes really big. I bought him to help with my hair algae problem. I just took a video on my camera of him eating hair algae. Im so excited. Hopefully thats all he will eat. If someone can show me how, I wouldnt mind sharing the video.

 

[wrightme43]

And Witful says...... come one everybody. We all know the words. Crabs are evil!!! I have been slowly capturing and banishing to the garage tanks all my emerald crabs. They eat algae, I also saw the bast#%*s pulling polyops out of my acro corals at night and munching away. I had to bbq fork that little feller. I hope yours works out great, mine didnt. Keep an eye on the little buggers. JMHO. Steve

 

[Angelscrx]

Mine eats green hair as well. He doesn't bother anything else in the tank and never has. I have had two and neither of them has ever done anything to deserve banishing.

 

[les]

At one time I had 6 Emerald crabs in my tank. They ate the algae and then slowly starved to death. I must admit that I have only a few acros though.