LynnEdwards Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 My husband has found algae on one of our live rocks and it appears to be bubble algae. What eats this stuff? Will our cleaning crew take care of it? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Emerald crabs love bubble algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Razor Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Juvenile emerald crabs. Adults usually wont touch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaJohn Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 +1 on emerald crabs my yellow eye khol tang loves them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Not to mention how cool emerald crabs are. Once they knock out your bubble algae be sure to continue to feed them. Mine will take dried Nori from my fingers. They love the stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Jakedoza Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Not to mention how cool emerald crabs are. Once they knock out your bubble algae be sure to continue to feed them. Mine will take dried Nori from my fingers. They love the stuff you should post a video of that.. I'd like to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Not to mention how cool emerald crabs are. Once they knock out your bubble algae be sure to continue to feed them. Mine will take dried Nori from my fingers. They love the stuff you should post a video of that.. I'd like to see it. I'll do it. I found out that my harlequin shrimp in my Solana will do the same if I hand it an asterina star. Fun stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I'd love to see video of that too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynnEdwards Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 do emerald crabs eat your coral and such? I've been told to stay way from crabs because they aren't reef safe and yadda yadda.... Where does bubble algae come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demodiki Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 do emerald crabs eat your coral and such? I've been told to stay way from crabs because they aren't reef safe and yadda yadda.... Where does bubble algae come from? Excessive nutrients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaJohn Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 any creature you add to the tank could eat corals emerald crabs are on the list of safe things for the tank and usualy dont. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Generally (and I do mean generally), crabs with blunt/rounded tips to their claws (like the emerald crab) will leave corals alone. Pointy clawed crabs are generally predators. I love having emeralds in my tanks, except for some odd reason they never seems to molt for me, and die off eventually. Every other crab I have owned (hermits mostly) molt very regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afgun Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 We had bubble algae on our new frag plugs. Turbo snails and blue-legged hermit crabs ate most of it. We only have mature emerald crabs and they didn't seem very interested. I have a TON of gorilla crabs if you want em. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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