id please

[mark peacock]

A couple of weeks ago i did a thread on something was eating my leather coral over the last week the leather has nearly been eaten today before the lights came on i sore a 1inch approx white hairy crab sat right on top of what was left of the leather had a look in my books and cannot id it but has the shape of a common shore crab but hairy and white all over i tried to get a photo but when i got back it disappeared i do have a rather big oyster is it possible that this crab is living in the oyster the oyster is living.
can anyone help. mark

 

[fly guy]

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchcrabs.html

this may help

 

[mark peacock]

Fly guy cheers dood its the 5th one on the first set of pics you sent spotted it straight away think i am going to put it in my qt tank looks nice so not going to be a toilet splash lol. cheers mark

 

[mark peacock]

id

this is the one that has totally eaten my mushroom leather coral his body is more or less the same colour as the leather that was why could not see at first.

 

[fly guy]

No problem. Charles did a great job n .

My response would have simply been, "ALL Crabs suck, if it isnt an acro or an emerald.......flush it"