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Mike-fish
02-12-2013, 04:49 AM
Caught this little guy to day. What kind of crab? Friend or foe? http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/031C7BB0-D09C-4630-83CB-176CC9BF0990-748-000000F5BBB5E7EE_zps49c571ae.jpg

untamed
02-12-2013, 05:59 AM
He would be welcome in my tank, but most people would recommend removal of that crab. He would be an opportunistic predator.

Mike-fish
02-12-2013, 07:14 AM
You pay for shipping he's all yours :lol:

Northvan
02-14-2013, 10:20 PM
Hi - I have two of them that I dropped in my refugium & yup, its a pest. Free to anyone that wants em! We live in North Van near 2nd narrows bridge
call or text Cathy 604-649-9249

madchild
02-14-2013, 10:48 PM
I have one in my tank too... How did you catch yours? Bottle trap?

Mike-fish
02-14-2013, 11:24 PM
Got lucky the other day with a set of tongs

NIVLEM09
02-15-2013, 01:45 AM
I've just removed one of these from my tank.it was feasting on my purple tip granulosa and blue tenius:cry: hope they recover soon....as for mr krabby-he's in my HOB refuge now:twised:

SanguinesDream
02-15-2013, 03:13 AM
Anyone have the species name on it? My daughter has one in her tank (science fair project) and she's been looking for an id.

Northvan
02-15-2013, 03:44 AM
Hey Madchild - We tore our whole tank apart catching the first one, tried every trap nothing worked. 60lbs of live rock out before we got him. He ate 2 fiji gold leathers completely, took chunks out of other leathers. took a while to figure out what it was, we NEVER saw him. 2nd smaller crab we found by accident a few days ago while cleaning some zenia off a rock. Saw beady eyes looking at me out of a hole in the rock. They have really good eyesight, they know when your gunning for them.

& as for ID, I'm pretty sure ours are rock crabs, based on black tips on the claws, but I guess they could be hairy crabs also

Northvan
02-15-2013, 04:04 AM
pics of when we caught the first one...he's 5 times bigger now, about 3 inches across the shell, been living in our refugium for 6 months