Help IDing a Crab
 

Hey guys, I just saw this guy trying to bury himself in my sand under one of my rock. Can anybody ID this thing? It looks like it'd eat a small fish and my tank's only a 10G soooo does anybody want him? Let me know if you guys got any idea what he is or if you have a nice home for him. Thanks

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too bad ur in cowtown id take him for my mantis tank in a heart beat

damn :( i'm gonna be putting fish in next week so i'm going to have to find a home for him. he's a cool little bugger but i can't have him around :(

I think its a Carpilius sp. Closest I could find was C. corallinus. I had a C. convexus in my tank last year, it must have hitchhiked on a rock and by the time I noticed it and got it out it was a good 3-3.5 inches across. Very creepy.:neutral:

I will take him off your hands. Just shoot me a pm I got a giant mantis shrimp, you can come watch him take care of the crab.

I take it back, looks more like this one:

Xanthias lamarcki

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/reefs/guami.../Images/50.jpg

yep that's him. can't find him anymore :( and i'm kind of hesitant to move my LR to find him haha.

Hey thanks for the ID, thats the same one I've seen in my tank after the lights are out. About 2" across. I think he's going to have to go.

I found one just like that in a piece of new live rock. I pu it in my tank and found my short spined urchin had some of its 'quills' cut off the next day. I hunted that crab down and gave it away.

Set a trap for him. If he's the only thing in there right now it should be pretty easy to get him. Try a clean glass jar propped up against the rock with some bait in it like an algae wafer. Leave it for a night or two and you should have him. I have used this method before and it works good, once he goes in there the glass is to slippery for him to crawl out.

Hey chisty, what web site would you reccomend or do you use for crab IDs. I have a little guy(bout the size of a dime) in my tank and havnt been able to find a good site or the proper ID. Sorry to hijack:redface:

This ones pretty good. I haven't had a lot of hitch hikers...It's kinda scary what could show up in your tank.

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyu...tchhikers.html