Is This Fella Reef Safe? I Found Him Last Night. Kinda Urgent.

[Fighterfish]

Thanks, Hope you guys can id him or her.

 

[STD]

Not something I'd risk in my Reef

If you have a sump put him in there

 

[Fighterfish]

do you know what kind it is?

 

[STD]

Not sure what kind but a general rule is have a good look at the tips of the pincers if they come to sharp points generally considered a no-no, if they are spoon shaped an algae eater so OK

That one looks like the pincers are pretty sharp

 

[Fighterfish]

i think it is some kind of mtihrax by looking at this web site http/home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchcrabs.html.
2 nd pic on mithrax section. Do you agree?

 

[STD]

It certainly looks similar but the pincers look more pointed to me

How big is it?

 

[Fighterfish]

Probably about 1.5 cm across.

 

[shibby]

i first though gorilla crab, but then again im pretty awful at id'ing

it looks a darker vewrsion than this kind of ...

image from: http/www.tbsaltwater.com/thepackage/watchout.html



though the eys arent quite right...

 

[Danno]

*cough* [sub]cinder block time.....[/sub]

 

[Betta5]

*cough* [sub]cinder block time.....[/sub]

Awww poor thing, good job hes not yours

Not a clue what it is, ima mak up a name, hairy claw crab? Haha thats a bad guess sorry

 

[Matthew5664]

could be a Tebby Bear Crab

 

[Danno]

*cough* [sub]cinder block time.....[/sub]

Awww poor thing, good job hes not yours

Not a clue what it is, ima mak up a name, hairy claw crab? Haha thats a bad guess sorry

Quite the opposite actually. Those can be extremely dangerious to your tank. Some of those crab can also be very venomous and can even endanger you! Better to rid it then to have a problem.

 

[FLcracker94]

i think it is some kind of mtihrax by looking at this web site http/home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchcrabs.html.
2 nd pic on mithrax section. Do you agree?

It looks exactly like it to me.

 

[rhysiboy]

i think also as a general rule that hairy crabs arnt very trustworthy

 

[jahouli]

I had three of these of varying sizes come in on my live rock. Couldn't decide whether it was teddybear or mithrax so closed my eyes and got my boyfriend to do the dirty work.