You've got to see this!!
 

Ok,

So I have a friend who's a bit crazy. He had a little rock crab that was annoying him. It would come out and knock over corals, mess with the fish, and was just a menace.

He tried and tried but couldn't get it out of this tank. One day he got fed up and did this:

Took a fire cracker and sealed it with hot glue. Then he rigged an electric fuse with some phone cord and a 9v battery.

Check out this video below:



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I was told that after the cave exploded, the crab walked out with only 3 legs. Then the cleaner shimp came in and started eating him.

I guess that's one way of taking care of a pest! hahaha

Don't know what to say? I'll have to sleep on this one.

LOL The plus side to this is that it shows a new way to aquascape :) Hmm now what did I do with those M80's I had as a kid :blown:

well, that was disturbing....now, let me go love on my crabs because i never knew how much they meant to me as i do now...hmm

hehe. that crab killed 3 fish and 2 peppermint shrimps. It also picked on a stylophora until it started bleaching. If you ask me, it deserved death. :) I had a mantis shrimp that I couldn't get rid of. It took down a whole school of chromis and a flame angel. If I knew of this solution back then, I wouldn't have hesitated to use it. :)

you know what would have been really funny?

If you had blown the front glass out of your tank and been mopping for the next 3 hours...that would have been funny.

I don't share the humor in the post though I do find Thomas B.'s idea amusing.

Could very well have blown the glass out and killed more than the crab, water doesn't compress so the shock wave could have done more damage than you can imagine if the cracker were bigger and in the right spot.

Pretty big gamble. I am glad to see the crab problem is fixed though :)

You guys are seriously out of your minds. Seriously...

I don't care what anyone thinks but that vid made my day.

I have a crab problem in one of my display tanks at work. I don't I have the guts to try the "firecracker" method though.

well apparently the cracker wasn’t larger and in th right place.. oh and no.. not glass but acrylic hehehe

How old are you guys? I don't mean it as a bad thing. I'm just curious. In all my time here I've never seen anything as outrageous as this.

Any pictures of the victim?

now, if you would have caught the crab by hand and sent it to me- i might have showed you some skin- but blowing it up- come on now, that doesnt even get a peek

Thats was pretty crazy,

Ive seen drchimo.. total hottie!:)

;)

drchimo, I just caught an acro crab last night and put it in my QT. Do you want it? I don't know what else to do with it. I can't put it back in my main tank. LMK

very creative, and ballsy too!

It's funny how some of you people get so upset about the vid. :) Can't wait for you guys to get a mantis shrimp or some flat worms :)

I've been keeping reef tanks for 9 years now.. nothing's worse than a pest you can't get out.. hehe

BTW Here's some pics of my tank:

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Cool, what do you do for a living to afford something like that?

I own a Internet consulting firm - [url]www.etrinitee.com[/url]

I also design and build full systems for local fish stores and resturants.. design and build commercial grade calcium and kalk reactors..

personally i thought that was great lol i love to blow stuff up.

Just curious as to what that powder residue is going to do to the rest of the tank inhabitants?

According to my friend, nothing happen to his tank. His tank seems perfectly fine to me:)

haha, awesome, you guys are just sad that you dont have so much fun anymore...