reefboy Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Actualy on a new brain but heres pics to give you the wooky's lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny503 Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 What is that? Aliens?(scary) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Does not look good whatever it is. Hopefully there are not more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csrdph Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I'd love to take him if you were in Portland.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewie Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Gall crab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 Gall crab? Best gess yet but I think its eyes are those tiny dots by the mouth I think the big ones are false to make it look mean as we all do lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 I'd love to take him if you were in Portland.... Well if your coming to theFarmers market and its still alive I'd be happy to bring it up with me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Might be worth checking with Shimek at his Marine Depot forum; could be a gall crab (looks passingly like some of the pics I've found online) but it'd suck if it was a pycnogonid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsoz Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Some questions that I can not tell from the pics (nice pics by the way). The tiny pincers up by the head (in the 4th picture), do they come from the thorax or from the mouth area? It has been many years since I did arthropod taxonomy, but from what I remember... If the claws are on the thorax, then there are 5 sets of "legs" on each side, and it is a decapod (crab, shrimp, lobster). If the claws come from the mouth area, then they are chelicera, not legs, and it makes it only have 4 legs on each side and it is an arachnid (spider, tick, mite). My best guess is that it is a type of crab, not a sea-spider. dsoz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 What ever it is it needs a leash(laugh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Snorkelwasp Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 that is sweet....i would take him too if hes still alive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Does that sucker swim? Seems like I read somewhere that one just like that would swim and attach to fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankIt Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Similar I have something similar in my tank! I have never seemed to have any problems by it so I leave it alone..... More like I cannot catch the little bugger!!!LOL I saw him in a rock crevis a few weeks after I got some new rock. I pocked and proded ripping some small pieces off the rock trying to get to him but to no avail!!!! I have only actually seen him twice since then and I think I felt him once when I picked up his rock but I freaked at the feeling like a spider was on my hand and I dropped the rock. So I told him I would make a deal he leaves my livestock alone and I will let him be!!!!! He never really comes out of the rock crevises but I seem to see him only right before I turn the lights out. I have tried looking with a flashlight after the lights have been off a while but never have any luck...........(scratch) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Popeil Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 ive seen those before: my mom found one in our shower once, this is her squishing it: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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