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07/03/2006, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: North Providence
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Cleaner Shrimp question.....
Frickin emerald crap cut off sum feelers from my cleaner shrimp...
Will they grow back? ------------------------------------------------ And another question.... Im getting rid of my emerald crabs becuz I think they ate my cardinal fish.. I already got rid of my hermit crabs becuz they kept eating my snails... what else, FOR CLEANING PURPOSES, should I get? Nothing with claws is preffered lol
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07/03/2006, 09:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Bay Area
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yeh it grows back
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07/03/2006, 10:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rockledge, Fl
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There are quite a few people who have sworn off crabs, and a good cross section of snails seems to work really well for them. Turbos are great algae eaters. I recently picked up a couple nassarius snails, and they have an amazing ability to sense any excess food that has found its way to the bottom of the aquarium and greedily gobble it down. I also have an urchin, that's a great algae grazer, but he's discovered the buffet of coraline growing on my back wall and hasn't left that area in months.
Anyway, I think my point is, pick up some algae and detritus eating snails (turbos, astrea, trochus, nassarius, etc.), and you should have no problems. Oh, and I'll trade you my cleaner shrimp for your emerald. I seem to have the opposite problem. It's my cleaner who's the trouble maker. My two emeralds are very well behaved (so far).
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07/03/2006, 10:13 PM
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Location: Bay Area
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I swore off crabs
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07/03/2006, 10:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: North Providence
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if your cleaner is a trouble maker.. count me out lol
mines good.. mines is own business and prances around the tank lol
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