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Old 10/14/2003, 03:21 PM
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Angry accidentally killed hitchhiker crab

i was dumping out the lr from my ac150 into a bucket of saltwater and dumped the parts of the ac150 into warm freshwater when a dime sized crab fell out of the ac150. i was really surprised because the lr were rubble sized and i thought i had inspected each piece before putting it into the ac150. it was squirming around in the warmer than 80F freshwater and so i tried to scoop it up. i did manage to scoop it up, ran to my tank and threw it in. when it was falling to the bottom it fell apart!

and then a large hermit came running for it and quickly consumed it.
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Old 10/14/2003, 08:22 PM
RicksReefs RicksReefs is offline
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it was probably best, most 'cute' little crabs
get big real quick & start munching/crushing/bulldozing
everything in the tank.
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Old 10/14/2003, 08:25 PM
RJARMAN RJARMAN is offline
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I have seen it happen personaly.......take a look at a rock crab for example, one bad little joker...
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Old 10/14/2003, 08:26 PM
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Consider yourself lucky. As Rick said, generally hitchhiker crabs get big and nasty fast.
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Old 10/14/2003, 09:11 PM
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Like everyone said,

accidentally killed hitchhiker crab
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Old 10/14/2003, 09:25 PM
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Wish I could get rid of hitchhiker crabs by accident .

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