duffy340 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 So this is a hitch hiker I found in my tank, Saw it about 5 months ago in my reef tank and never saw it again til tonight. caught it and put in my qt. [ATTACH]12883[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Can you get a better picture? It kinda looks like an anemone crab but difficult to tell. Does it look like the crab in my avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy340 Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 Yeah I got one more, not the best pics just using my iphone. It's bigger than a emerald crab. [ATTACH]12884[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike nickerson Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I agree with kim it kinda looks like a nem crab but it looks to have black tipped claws and to beefy looking to be a anemone crab its cool lookinv what ever kind of crab it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy340 Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 Yeah I think he's been eating my zoo's though, a lot of mine went missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derbird Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 To the sump with him (jail) He is kinda too cool to flush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike nickerson Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 that probably true since half the finds you find as hitchhikers have black tips and aren't reef safe. I hade two orange fuzzy crabs that hitchhiked in some live rock that killed a couple of my fish nasty little things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 With the new picture it does not look like an anemone crab. I would definitely get it out. Sent from my BlackBerry 9630 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Probably a species of Xanthidae. There are a lot of species listed here and if you click on the link there are more. http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchcrabs.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alterego Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Bad bad bad bad crab. Feed it to a trigger!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy340 Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 Thanks guys, Yeah I put him in my qt late last night when I saw him in my reef tank. guess I'll just throw him away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgrcrain Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Give him to someone with a mantis shrimp. Thats always neat to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Lol Roger. She just came over here. I had thought about suggesting it because I do have a mantis shrimp. Sent from my BlackBerry 9630 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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