Diana’s build

[diana a]

Delivered at 9:15AM over night delivery shipped in water of rocks from KP Aquatics. This guy crawled out. Is he a bad crab? I have never had a crab in my tank. I have only seen Emerald Crabs at Tropiquarium


Thank you!

 

[iTzJu]

my general rule with crabs, is if its hairy then its scary. lol i would sump it until someone can ID properly.

 

[deepblue68]

Cool crab but I can't id

 

[MadReefer]

I don't like the looks of that large claw.

 

[amado]

If the claws are pointy they got to go.
That doesn’t look like a good crab.

 

[DEL]

i thought this was a pic of tonight's dinner!! hahahaha!! that's one big crab!!

 

[DangerDave]

Almost all crabs are bad in a reef tank. I’d put him in the sump, or the bowl.

 

[diana a]

Thanks guys!

Okay here are two I don’t know what they are. I have searched the internet...any idea?

 

[MadReefer]

The 1st pic looks like a Bobbit worm. Not sure about the other.

 

[deepblue68]

Delivered at 9:15AM over night delivery shipped in water of rocks from KP Aquatics. This guy crawled out. Is he a bad crab? I have never had a crab in my tank. I have only seen Emerald Crabs at Tropiquarium


Thank you!

Diana
Where did you find this retailer for the live rock was it by chance or someone recommended?
Are you happy with the purchase?

 

[diana a]

Diana
Where did you find this retailer for the live rock was it by chance or someone recommended?
Are you happy with the purchase?

KP Aquatics. I placed an order on Sunday morning, it was shipped Monday morning and received it before 10 AM Tuesday. I got 15 pounds shipped in water. Water weight is not included in the weigh total. I wish I knew that and I would have just gotten 10 pounds of rock in water. I'll take a photo of the rocks later

 

[diana a]

First photo is a euclid worm. Still don't know what the bright yellow worm is

 

[Juano908]

Build is looking good but be careful with whatever came in that rocks, that's the downside of real live rocks.

 

[diana a]

Build is looking good but be careful with whatever came in that rocks, that's the downside of real live rocks.

Yes and it does scare me. All the rock I own from my 90g was from Tropiquarium and they didn't have one bad thing on them. Only reason why I bought more rock was to add diversity of bacteria. I currently have the KP Aquatics rocks in a QT tank.

Here is another...snail. One photo while its hiding in its shell and the other while crawling. These creatures fascinate me but scare me at the same time. Don’t want them eating my corals or fish

 

[brokereefer]

I think that crab is essentially an emerald crab. Emerald crabs are green mithrax crabs. That looks like a red mithrax that you have there. You see them occasionally for sale. It's missing a few limbs and a claw, but has that same specialized pincer that they use to grab algae strands.

 

[diana a]

The 1st pic looks like a Bobbit worm. Not sure about the other.

@MadReefer you are correct it is a bobbit worm. The other is called an epitoke.

Any advise on how to flush out critters...example mantis, worms etc? (only mantis I have ever seen was at @Mark_C house and the boy was big. Never seen a baby mantis) Just did a higher salinity bath for 4 min while I did a water change in the quarantine tank

 

[diana a]

Scary......

 

[deepblue68]

Scary......

Wow you dont want that in your reef tank!! Lol I enjoyed the video thanks!

 

[MadReefer]

Not my Toby.

 

[diana a]

I know I am over complicating this and being overly cautious. The rocks are in a quarantine tank.

I hate API tests. DT has corals and fish Would you feel comfortable in adding rocks to a DT if this is the ammonia results?