arrow crab stacking rocks?
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Topic: arrow crab stacking rocks?
Posted By: dnellans
Subject: arrow crab stacking rocks?
Date Posted: April 22 2005 at 9:08pm
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Within the last day or two my arrow crab has been hanging out down in
the back behind a few rocks were you can't see him so well but enough
to see what he's up to that sneaky b@stard. nothing has changed
for water perameters and he still comes out to eat so i'm not really
worried about his health. i wouldn't think anything of it except he has started a peculiar behaviour of "stacking" rocks. i can't get a picture of it except to say he's started shoveling some of the bigger shells and things into a pile that is maybe the size of a small golf ball. anyone have any idea what he might be doing? - |
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Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: April 23 2005 at 12:00am
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Building a castle? ------------- Jake Pehrson Murray http://coralplanet.com" rel="nofollow - coralplanet.com http://utahbeeranch.com" rel="nofollow - :) |
Posted By: Skyetone
Date Posted: April 23 2005 at 10:11am
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crabs want to hide. He may be getting bugged by other fish and wants to build himself a hidy hole.... ------------- I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it. Magna |
Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: April 23 2005 at 1:21pm
Sounds interesting! Reef critters do the funniest stuff...  ------------- Renee and Damon Weimer Tankless in Hawaii |
Posted By: dnellans
Date Posted: April 23 2005 at 3:43pm
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I thought he might be "hiding" as well, but he is probably 8 inches
wide with those big spidery legs so it'd have to be a BIG pile.
as is its not very large but he's still keeping at it... i'll try
and get a few pictures so you guys can see this wierdo behavior. -dwn |