does anyone frag their brains? i have a nice trach that i will have to get a good pic of. it isnt as purply blue as the pic i picked it from but still very nice. what kind of tiny crab would live in a hole in one of these? like it was injured and healed but left a hole to the inside. a very freeking tiny crab lives in there.
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Can you get a pic of the crab? Could be that the crab made the hole. Some not so nice crabs can come in as hitchhikers on LR or even a newly bought piece of coral. I had the happen to me, it was a gorilla crab and it came from a zoa frag I bought online.
i just looked up gorilla crab and thankfully it isnt one of those,lol. my camera isnt good enough for good macro shots unfortunately. it is about the size of a tip of pencil lead or near and is mottled brown/black with reddish claws. he trys to hide or quits moving when i hit it with the flashlight. normally you cant see it but when you can it is grabbing stuff from the water it seems or pushing stuff out of its hole, like it is cleaning.
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here is a not great pic but you can see the hole the crab lives in, then a better pic of my brain!
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Reading around, that might be a gall crab, they tend to be the colors you described. If so, there's been mixed reports. WetWebMedia says they're safe, some others have had them pick at their coral. I'd suggest just monitoring him for awhile. If he starts picking at anything to the point that it's damaging the coral, throw him out.
Thanks. It sounds like that could be it. I didnt see any pics that look just like it but it is tiny, so i couldnt even really tell you much.
So far it hasnt enlarged its home or seem to get any bigger in the couple of months i have owned it.
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i have a nice trach that i will have to get a good pic of. it isnt as purply blue as the pic i picked it from but still very nice. what kind of tiny crab would live in a hole in one of these? like it was injured and healed but left a hole to the inside. a very freeking tiny crab lives in there.
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