[ravenmore]

Hi guys,

I've been trying for a couple of weeks to remove a sally light foot crab from my tank. (these guys tend to develope a taste for fish when they get older/bigger, as mine has). He's been too fast for me to get. I've tried the bottle trap method with no luck either. Well I've noticed often at night he has this strange behavior of pressing flat up against the glass. I thought it might be easy to net him like this and I was right....easy as scooping ice cream. Turns out that during this behavior he's disoriented....not sure if he's sleeping, sleep walking or what. He's not sick, I've witnessed this behavior since I've had him - just never knew he'd be so easy to net like this. Anyway, he didn't even put up a fight and is now happily living in a 20 gallon rubbermaid tub waiting to go back to the lfs.....

thought I'd pass this on....might be helpfull to know for anyone in the same boat....

-Mike

[organicreefer]

ravenmore i did the same thing about two months ago,after my blenny disappeared.i had lost one fish a month (set my watch by it ) prior to removing the sally.a small cleaner wrasse was the first,and even though i had the guy for about six months and he ate everything and anything,i chalked it up to everyone being right about there poor survival in captivity.next,a month later, was my small red and black clown ,poof! gone no trace.then one month after that my bi-color blenny disapeared .he was my favorite fish .since removing the sally,i havent losy anymore fish,i didnt think that the sally would have been able to eat a whole fish in one night,but i havent lost anymore fish either.dont you think the sally WAS sleeping when you caught him ,because in hindsight,how could he catch a sleeping fish at night if he sleeps too?

[ravenmore]

I don't know if it was sleeping...it was just "in a trance" or something. Really odd, the crab was very disoriented acting. Like I said, I'd noticed this behaviour before and I've had the crab about a year. Not sure what it's all about. Don't think it was sick either... It could also be construed that it was trying to climb the tank walls....

Don't know, just glad he's outta there.

-Mike

[Nanook01]

That's exactly how I caught my Sally Lightfoot. I noticed that he had this habit of dancing vertically at the front of the tank glass. After reading about how they eventually become SEXUALLY MATURE, then develop a taste for small fish or anything else they can CLAW, I knew I had to catch him. I saw him dancing one night in the front of the tank, by the glass, I grabbed my 4 inch net and with one swoosh captured him and returned him to the LFS. They thought I was crazy for returning him

nanook

[organicreefer]

im glad to know my slf isnt the only tweaker