Help IDing a Crab

Nixon · #1 03-19-2007, 03:53 AM

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

demon666 · #2 03-19-2007, 06:11 AM

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

Nixon · #3 03-19-2007, 04:36 PM

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

christyf5 · #4 03-19-2007, 05:22 PM

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.

Skimmer Juice · #5 03-19-2007, 05:23 PM

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.

christyf5 · #6 03-19-2007, 05:31 PM

I take it back, looks more like this one:

Xanthias lamarcki

Nixon · #7 03-20-2007, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

I take it back, looks more like this one:

Xanthias lamarcki

yep that's him. can't find him anymore

and i'm kind of hesitant to move my LR to find him haha.

Pescador · #8 03-21-2007, 10:44 PM

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.

crystalz · #9 06-01-2007, 06:34 AM

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.

MikeP · #10 06-02-2007, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Nixon

yep that's him. can't find him anymore

and i'm kind of hesitant to move my LR to find him haha.

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.