Acro crab or something else?

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Just days ago I removed what I know was a gorilla crab from my acros today I removed another from a different acro and only moments later I removed a larger but slightly different looking crab from the same acro...his legs have hairy segments on his rear legs only a striped pattern as well that looks which and faint red with white clay tips...so I'm not sure if it's a gorilla or acro crab
 
Just days ago I removed what I know was a gorilla crab from my acros today I removed another from a different acro and only moments later I removed a larger but slightly different looking crab from the same acro...his legs have hairy segments on his rear legs only a striped pattern as well that looks which and faint red with white clay tips...so I'm not sure if it's a gorilla or acro crab
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Thousands of crab species.
If in doubt, take it out for now.
Acro crabs usually very small.
 
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None of mine have hairy back legs.
That would irritate polyps IMM.
Do you see him cleaning the coral?
Gorilla crabs are a problem.
 
I did see him doing something like that before I removed him hea in my quarantine tank at the moment until I get a good identification he didn't appear to be directly eating the polyps like the gorilla crab was but my frags though they have grown are still just under 8 inches and I heard that even acro crabs can irritate them and damage them when they are too small to host them
 
I did see him doing something like that before I removed him hea in my quarantine tank at the moment until I get a good identification he didn't appear to be directly eating the polyps like the gorilla crab was but my frags though they have grown are still just under 8 inches and I heard that even acro crabs can irritate them and damage them when they are too small to host them
Sometimes hard to tell friend from foe when it comes to crabs.
 
Hard to see from that video, but it looks almost like a mithrax. They have hairy legs. Decorator crabs can also have hairy legs, depending on the type.
 

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