makosam makosam
  • Just can't stay away
  • Just can't stay away
  • Joined: 9/4/2005 16:12
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  • Posted on: 11/5/2008 16:53
boxing crab maddness #1
Right, now then, here's a poser for you that's more for my curiosity really, cause I've NEVER heard of this before - i recently popped a new cleaner shrimp into my nano. He happily pootled round for a bit, meeting the other residents.....including my little boxing crab (Lybia tesselata).......who grabbed him....and spent the next few hours eating him!!!!!! I have NEVER heard of a boxing crab doing this before. To prove I'm not insane here's a picture taken when i could get my macro lens close to his cave.......

Has anyone ever heard of boxing crabs doing this before??

Sam

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Kaz980 Kaz980
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  • Joined: 28/12/2006 2:03
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  • Posted on: 12/5/2008 9:20
Re: boxing crab maddness #2
Bad luck macosam, I've had a look on the web but can't find anything that states they are not invert compatable, but he definately isn't. I've just had a hog fish kill off my 2 cleaner shrimp, so in order to keep the shrimp my fish had to go, I'm afraid it looks the same choice for you
karen