see this

[burning2nd]

look at this guy.

i just got him and put him in the sump with the arrow crab.


what should i do with him, he is geting bigger and bigger, and it just saw him harassing the hermits.

so i scooped his azz up and sump pwnd him.


should i try to trad him in or something?

 

[james734]

With pinchers like that I'd would assume not to friendly in the display. Should be fine though in the sump. Can you get a picture from the top it will help ID the little guy?

 

[burning2nd]

ya, hes in the sump ill get a pic in a ltitle, and ill post from uptop

 

[burning2nd]

 

[shallowreef]

he looks viscous!

 

[james734]

he looks viscous!

Yeah, it does.. Usually big pinchers like that means trouble in the tank.

Jon, Do any of these look like it?
http://www.edge-of-reef.com/brachiuri/brachiurilistaen.htm

 

[burning2nd]

hes not that big, i saw him when i got him he was a tiny little thing.

i though it died cause i found that first molt.

3 molts later, he is about the size of a quarter.

and im sure if he gets his little claws on something alive to eat, he will.

so insted of waiting to one morning wakeing to find a fish gone, or in the claws of a little crab, (ive bin trying to catch his azz hes fast) this moringin i found him harrasing my biggest blue, (in the corner of the shell yard) so i use some millitary assult tacitic's up on him got him in a shell. then grabed the shell and put it in the sump,

he has already made his way to the return side.

id yet?

 

[burning2nd]

no id on that page

 

[james734]

Can you get a picture directly from above? Crabs are usually ID'd from the shape of their shell or at least help get you into the correct species of crabs.

 

[burning2nd]

almost droped the $500 cammra in the sump

and the worse part is its the girlfriend's cammra

 

[Krish]

That crab looks just like the ones we have around here running through the puddles, but I have no idea wht they are called. Crabs are opportunists if you ask me so I don't keep any at all

 

[james734]

Well I think it belongs to the Xanthidae species. Find the exact one is going to be the problem.

If I had to guess I think it's this one here.
http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/bvi-surv/images/crab-i06/02027.htm

Here's some more to look at.
http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/bvi-surv/crab-g06.htm

 

[Scooterman]

I think James came very close as to what it is, I'd bring it to the LFS for a trade

 

[Little Luey]

If he gets big enough you may want to steam him and serve him over a bed of rice and veggies.

 

[burning2nd]

ill have 2 wait and see.