[rlcline76]

It was in my son's tank. I had just target fed that fool, too! Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, you got to get the hell out of my tank. I don't know what I will tell the 3 yr old. I cannot say for sure how much damage the little beast did. It is a fairly large frag. Can anyone say just how hardy a star polyp is when combined with a emerald crab? Is there much hope?

[pbukow]

A corals cell's are individual meaning each is functioning basically on its own. Thats why they can be fragged and regrown as if nothing happened. Some are specialized to form the stinging cells (neumatocysts) that catch passing particles and others form the aboral surfaces of the animal. So in theory, keeping it in a predatory free in environment and with everything it needs to live, it should come back. . . in theory.

[pbukow]

Oh yeah, Good Luck Rlcline

[c-c]

Rlcline76,
Thanks for the warning I've never had an emerald crab and I don't see one in my future. I hope you can save your green star polyp.

[Dara]

I have 2 emerald crabs in my tank and neither of them have ever touched my corals. They pick at the rock all day and demolish any type of algae. Green star polyps are very hardy; mine survived having a plugged in strip light dropped into the QT with it, a few days with no light until the strip light was replaced, being knocked off it's rock by a turbo snail, and being covered with sand by a diamond goby who is determined to erect a sand castle skyscraper in my reef tank. In spite of everything it keeps growing and spreading. They love iodine, you might want to add it to your tank regularly. All the soft corals and polyps spread faster with it in the tank. Good luck with your star polyps.

[starboy]

Either your emerald crab is a lookalike but not a true emerald or the poor guy has run out of algae food to eat and is starving.
Try feeding it seaweeds as emeralds are veggies not coral eaters.

[Bonez]

Originally Posted by Dara

and being covered with sand by a diamond goby who is determined to erect a sand castle skyscraper in my reef tank. .

LMFAO, good show!




-derrick

[dav_nolen]

yea ive also got 2 emeralds....they sure do work..havent touched any of my corals at all

[msbdiving]

That is the exact reason I am so leary of putting any sort of crab in my tank. I'll stick with snails and my Kole. By the way, pbukow, in theory, it sounds perfect. Exactly like a textbook. However, I wish the textbook would have worked on a pompom xenia that I had. I found a little white crab that wrecked havoc on it and it never recovered. Even when I tried to frag pieces to save it. On the bright side, I know GSP's are like a weed and I am sure they will come back with a vengance.