At first, it sounds like a nudibranch, but I have NEVER heard of one of
those eating crabs, or live fish or anything like that. They are generally
slow moving and dont cause trouble with anything that can move out of their
way.
Now, there are a couple of speices of predatory snails (sorry, dont remember
the name) that will eat fish, and may possibly go after your crabs as well,
I suppose. I saw these guys on a discovery channel show, and they were
pretty nasty. Did it have any type of shell at all??
Any ways, if you have not already, you should get it out of the tank. If you
have witnessed it being agressive towards your crabs, who knows whats next!?
FWIW
Shane C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: I've been slimed
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> I've got something wierd in my tank and wonder if you guys could help.
>
> I saw it about 3 months ago, it was about 3 inches long 1 inch wide,
> transparent skin
> with black dots on it (my wife reckons they're blue) and very flat.
> It slides it's way around on the rocks, glass and sand.
> It came out arond the same time in the evening (lights on) not really
> bothering
> anything else (hermit crabs, shrimp, corals) and would then go back to
> whence it came.
> I managed to take a picture of it and showed it to the lfs, they said it
> wasn't a problem
> and have that in their tanks at home (don't they always??!).
>
> After a week or two I never saw it again, I later rearranged the rocks in
> tank so I
> figured it may have died in the melee.
>
> But to my amazement I saw it again a couple of nights ago
> bigger (about 4 inches) and apparently badder.
> I've a larger hermit crab in the tank and it showed an unwelcomed liking
> to
> the crab by wrapping itself around it, I had to use my prongs to scare him
> off.
> I tried to lift it out with the prongs but it's a slippery fella as it
> managed to slip through
> each time, the poor crab seemed to be covered in goo as there was sand
> sticking
> all over him. I have quite a few empty hermit crab shells in the tank but
> I thought
> they were dying due to heat (tanks about 82) , water conditions (all test
> prove fine) but
> now it could be down to Slimey.
> Any ideas/ suggestions welcome. Thanx. (also what does lol mean?)
>
> Charles
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