Removing pest hitchikers

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Jack Dempsey
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I know of the glass idea, but I have also read that putting your live rock in a bucket with a salinity of 1.040 will send every critter in the rock scurrying out of the rock and into the bucket. I have tried this twice now on a few rocks with great success. I have managed to pull out 3 stone crabs, 1 porcelain crab, various copepods etc, serpent starts, hermit crabs and snails. I dont see a downfall to this method besides wasting some salt.
 
this is also a common issue and think maybe there should be a sticky on it because I seached a lot of places for some ideas.
 
Interesting...I have never heard of this, but dont see any reason why it couldnt be stickied...a little more organized post and maybe some pictures might make the mods think the same...although we are a pretty well behaved bunch, and they dont spend much time around here.
 
FLESHY;4727421; said:
Interesting...I have never heard of this, but dont see any reason why it couldnt be stickied...a little more organized post and maybe some pictures might make the mods think the same...although we are a pretty well behaved bunch, and they dont spend much time around here.
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Yeah I am not saying this exact thread should be a sticky but one that includes many different means of capturing these critters. I salty water has worked wonders though!
 
I have been lucky, and actually never had to remove one of these...obviously aptasia...but I just do that with peppermint shrimp.
 
FLESHY;4731984; said:
I have been lucky, and actually never had to remove one of these...obviously aptasia...but I just do that with peppermint shrimp.
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stone crabs seem to be my specialty. I seem to always get them, but never in the numbers I have had in this new tank. I think I have them all out now, I hope. I found 4 and one dead and removed a porcelain shrimp with them. Only lost a couple chromis to them, but maybe more than a couple cerith snails and hermit crabs.
 
I've never heard of that before

I'll have to give it a try on my next set-up.

I had cycled my current SW tank without any lights on so most of my hitch-hikers didn't make it.
 
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