Crab ID
 

Caught this little guy to day. What kind of crab? Friend or foe? http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/...ps49c571ae.jpg

He would be welcome in my tank, but most people would recommend removal of that crab. He would be an opportunistic predator.

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GOT CRABS
 

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

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

Got lucky the other day with a set of tongs

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.

catching crabs
 

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

Crabula
 

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