Should i try an emerald crab!?

its an awesome addition. its doin well in my reef

 

PS.. emerald crabs are good for bubble algae

 

Shouldn't have anything to worry about, I have a firefish and a small royal gramma both of which are completely left alone by my two decent sized emeralds.

 

The only problem I have with mine is it loves to knock over my zoa frags. Was easily fixed with some superglue. They don't care what they have to move to get to their food so make sure all corals are glued in place.

 

thanks to all for an input. Hopefully i will be able to find one at the lfs this weekend. As far as eating the coralline, i really don't mind,i have an urchin who is known to eat coralline and hasn't done so yet, so i'm not going to be to worried about that

 

For whatever reason these guys seem not to live very long in tanks. A trick that my LFS told me was; after acclimation place the crab in the mist of the bubble aglae. I did this and he went to town of that stuff. I never saw that algae again.

 

OKAY CHICKY....see what you started? I had one that grew to the size of a volkswagen?.....how about a snow tire?... a large watermelon?......okay, okay. It was a little larger than a $1 coin. It had super hairy legs, pretty crazy. I think too much "NAIR" is what killed it. ;D

 

hahahaha ewwww hairy legs sound gross!

 

I have had them in my big system from the get go with no problems

 

glad to hear i just really hope the lfs has one. I would prefer to suck out the algae myself, but the bubbles are sooooooo small! i can't see them when i look at the rock that their on, but in the pics that i took of my fish, their there. So hopefully the crab will be able to notice them, i don't know how much of this algae i have in my tank