Finally caught my grief - pic's of it
 

So this guy has caused me much grief over the past while. After I first saw it in the shadows of some rock it took me a bit to believe what I saw until I saw it again a few days later. Was really hard to tell at first how big or even what it really was. Since the spring a started to loss livestock. The first major one was a prized clam. Then things like zoo's, rhodactis and other LPS. Also had some fish disappear. During this time I had no idea what could be doing this. All the fish I have I could not believe was doing this. But I now remember adding a piece of live rock sometime ago9first time in years. So I'm guessing this is where he came from. I have totally tore out my live rock out of my 150g, put a few fish in my other tanks to catch this guy. Very fast and clever. Wouldn't even go for the trap idea. So while I'm at it I will clean all my rock as I've been battling a bad aiptasia problem. Who knows I may just sell off my 150g. Just had to vent abit as the past couple of years have not been great with reefing.:confused:



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Jeez.....nasty looking little bugger.

Should make it that much easier to kill it :mrgreen:

Cool designs on that guy, and ya, he does look nasty!

He is trying to look all innocent. What are you going to do with him? I have a sump full of those buggers if you don't want to kill him I can take him off your hands.

Holy hell he's big! Now refresh the reef =)

WOW
 

That is a huge crab for a fish tank!!!! I would hate to find him in mine.

He'd probably eat all the others Kien... :lol:

As mad as I am at it, I won't be killing it. He's getting by on his good looks :smile:

a little while longer you could eat him for a snack instead of him eating every thing in your tank...

Really cool markings!

I can see losing coral, zoa's and stuff that doesn't move, but I find it hard to believe a crab can go fishing. Unless the fish are slow as malasses.

Cool find, throw him in the sump.