Can anyone ID this?

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It's a hitchhiker... red... looks like a crab... actually, he looks like a brain with extremely thick legs lol. Doesn't seem to be hairy like a gorilla crab.... comes out only at night and is growing extremely quickly. His body is well over 1" x 1".... sorry about the pic quality - hard to get a good pic at night. Haven't seen him trying to eat my corals... I assume given how fast he's growing, he won't be all that reef safe...

Anyone know what I'm dealing with??
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Crab alright.
The question is, good, bad and ugly?
That last is a fact.
My $0.02 if you didn’t put it in your tank you don’t want it.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's some sort of xanthid crab... but no idea what type or just how destructive he'll be/how big he'll grow....
 

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