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12/20/2007, 05:16 PM
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dead fish i cant get to what do i do
my first dead fish and i dont know why well anyways i was trying to get it out and it went behind the rocks and now a crab has ahold of it what do i do to i get it out behind the rocks away from the crab or should i just let it in their for the crabs to eat. and if so will i get some ammonia or nitrate spikes ? what do i do? its a clownfish this sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12/20/2007, 05:18 PM
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what size cleanup crew do you have? if it is decent size I wouldn't worry about it. if you don't have much for a CUC then I would try to get it out.
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12/20/2007, 05:20 PM
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yeah its swarmed right now with a bunch of red legged hermits and a fiddler crab looking thing is eating on it too i have a 55 gallon tank with 25 red leg hermits 2 other crabs that just came on the rock and some snails but i dont think they eat fish do they
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12/20/2007, 05:21 PM
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If you have crabs, snails, and bristleworms and your tank is a few months old it's not a problem. In a 55, it will just disappear without a blip. They NEVER demise where you can reach them in a reef.
Sorry about the fish. ....whoa! Fiddler crab looking thing?!!! Bait a wine carafe trap and get out ANYTHING crabby that's not a hermit or a green mithrax crab. They can go in your sump, but not in your main tank. The fiddler-crab-looking-thing may not have waited for your clown to demise: he may have hunted it down. WOrms are 99.9 percent good guys as hitchhikers: crabs are almost 99.9 percent predator bad guys. They likely will not respond to bait after this feed. But after your tank is back to normal [hoping they don't get another fish] starve your tank for a few days, and at night, put some raw cocktail shrimp [one] in a wine carafe braced against the rocks. Crabs don't climb glass well. If you can trap them wtih that, to the sump with them.
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12/20/2007, 05:24 PM
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you'll be fine. the CUC will take care of the fish for ya.
and also sorry to hear about your loss.
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12/20/2007, 07:08 PM
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get that crab outa there!
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12/20/2007, 07:22 PM
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I rearranged my rock work and found one of those things along with over $100 in snail shells. Lucky I did that or I would never had found him. NOw he lives in my refug.
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12/20/2007, 07:30 PM
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Note my revised post above. All crabs out that you didn't buy.
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