Crab - friend or foe?

[WhiskeyCoffee]

Found while moving some rock around, was fortunate enough to snag and detain him. Should I keep him or toss him?

 

[Untamedrose]

one of the Xanthid by the claw shape, general shape...BUT saying such covers at the very least 500 species most not well documented so all I am really saying there is...umm...mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crab!
Black fingered mud crab... be a tentative guess..I found this but a google showed Lots of different crabs too http://www.melevsreef.com/node/380


I would Not keep him my display...
Have a sump?
I made a pico tank for my bad boy crab lol

 

[Roboson]

I'd put my money on black mithrax crab. Either way he's a sump pet.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'd go black fingered mud crab.
Cuz I want a band named that.

Yea sump him. He's a beauty.

 

[ChiCity]

Foe, banish to toilet or sump if you don't have the heart to flush

 

[Roboson]

Don't flush him! Sump him! He's not evil, he just isn't suited for our tanks.

 

[ChiCity]

Meh, crabs are scavengers by nature and in my experience most of them have been *****s.
They're are a few good ones like porcelain or pompoms, but in general im not a fan of hitcher crabs.
Ymmv

 

[cameronh]

Foe, banish to toilet or sump if you don't have the heart to flush

You savage! [emoji12] lol

 

[Roboson]

Imagine being trapped in prison with someone else's prized hamburger collection. That's what it's like being a hitch-hiker crab. It's not his fault he loves hamburgers, he can't help it. You may as well put him in a prison where he can eat other food (sump). Why jump straight to killing when there's a better option.

 

[singleshot]

Put him in the sump or see if you can trade him for a crab you want/like