[img] Problem Crab - ID?

birdz · 05/11/2009, 08:09 AM

I got a rock package from TBS and hitchhiking on my rock was a big black crab. I let him be so I could watch to see if he would become a problem or not and sure enough he's started munching some mushrooms and xenia in the tank

I'm still new to the hobby and don't know what this guy is?

Sugar Magnolia · 05/11/2009, 08:37 AM

More than likely it's a species of xanthid crab. If it's eating your corals, it has to go. Do you have a sump you could put it in?

birdz · 05/11/2009, 09:02 AM

No real place to put him, I haven't added a refugium yet. He's in crab heaven now

05/11/2009, 08:09 AM	#1
birdz Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 107	[img] Problem Crab - ID? I got a rock package from TBS and hitchhiking on my rock was a big black crab. I let him be so I could watch to see if he would become a problem or not and sure enough he's started munching some mushrooms and xenia in the tank I'm still new to the hobby and don't know what this guy is?

05/11/2009, 08:37 AM	#2
Sugar Magnolia Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Northern VA Posts: 17,691	More than likely it's a species of xanthid crab. If it's eating your corals, it has to go. Do you have a sump you could put it in? __________________ Adrienne The only thing to fear is fear itself....and spiders.

05/11/2009, 09:02 AM	#3
birdz Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 107	No real place to put him, I haven't added a refugium yet. He's in crab heaven now