SSalty
Team Liquid Force
It is whitish with red eyes. It's probably 1.5 inches. I didn't add it to the tank, it is a hitchiker.
Crab identification (w/pic)
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lightcs4
Loving to learn
Sorry, couldn't tell from the picture.
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
Here is the best pic I can get. He is in an awkward position.
bobby
I like to do bad things.
Try googling xanthid crab. That's what it look like to me, but kinda hard to tell form the pic. I have one in my tank. Did great for quite some time then starting eating all me snails and might have got a fish to but don't know for sure.
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
Thanks for the advice Bobby. Now that I think of it, I have noticed some empty snail shells around his "living" area.
This crab is a hitch-hiker.
Did you add yours manually or did it come in on the rock?
lightcs4
Loving to learn
Much better pic. Thanks. I think Bobby has you covered.
messiah023
Reefing newb
Ssalty,
White and red leads me to think it's a porcelain crab. If you look closely at your pic, it shows (albeit with bad lighting) reddish/brown "freckles"....this is indicative of a Porcelain crab......
White and red leads me to think it's a porcelain crab. If you look closely at your pic, it shows (albeit with bad lighting) reddish/brown "freckles"....this is indicative of a Porcelain crab......
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
Thanks for the insight, however it's not a porcelain crab. There is no red on the body, just on the eyes.
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messiah023
Reefing newb
Ssalty,
The top pic shows dotted "freckles" on the crab.
Are they brownish red?
The top pic shows dotted "freckles" on the crab.
Are they brownish red?
bobby
I like to do bad things.
I didn't add mine came in on a piece of live rock I had it for a long time before I ever noticed it. I kept an eye on it after I found it and put it in my sump after all my snails and conchs started dying off real fast. I put it in the sump with a piece of softer very pourous rock and it actuall dug out a hole in the rock and lived in it.
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
Nope, the "freckles" that you see are the shadows of the indentations on the crab. The body is white and the "freckles" are grey.
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
Bobby, how did you get him out without harming him? I don't want to kill him as I didn't intentionally put him in my tank. He deserves a chance too.
Also, now it makes sense that there was a misterious hole in my live rock for a couple years. I didn't think nothing off it until I found the crab.
Thanks!
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bobby
I like to do bad things.
I found the hole he was in and poked around in it with a pen. He had a escape side and came out the other side. When he came out I tossed him in the sump. I fed it a piece of silver side every now and then. I wont kill mine, but have been looking for someone with a mantis to give it to. If it's nature then it's not killing.LOL
