I released the crab into my cube tank which has no SPS (nor ever will as it's a species setup for my ritteri). He promptly buried himself into the sand.
He definitely ate down the polyps of my hoeksemai, you can totally tell where he was eating them even 3 days later. There are only nubs left behind whereas on the rest of the coral there is full polyp expansion.
My hope is that the crab is not an obligate polyp feeder. Should he be an opportunistic scavenger, like most crabs, he ought to be OK in there and not be a nuisance to anything.
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