Crab ID

Mike-fish · #1 02-12-2013, 05:49 AM

Caught this little guy to day. What kind of crab? Friend or foe?

untamed · #2 02-12-2013, 06:59 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 · #3 02-12-2013, 08:14 AM

You pay for shipping he's all yours

Northvan · #4 02-14-2013, 11:20 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
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madchild · #5 02-14-2013, 11:48 PM

I have one in my tank too... How did you catch yours? Bottle trap?

Mike-fish · #6 02-15-2013, 12:24 AM

Got lucky the other day with a set of tongs

NIVLEM09 · #7 02-15-2013, 02:45 AM

I've just removed one of these from my tank.it was feasting on my purple tip granulosa and blue tenius

hope they recover soon....as for mr krabby-he's in my HOB refuge now

SanguinesDream · #8 02-15-2013, 04:13 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 · #9 02-15-2013, 04:44 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 · #10 02-15-2013, 05:04 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