Crab Hitched a Ride on Trochus Snail - ID?

[LiquidSpace]

So I love crabs but I don’t love them enough to have a species dedicated tank, although I’d love to do a Shame Faced tank someday.

Anyways…This tank has coral so I’d rather not have anyone that’ll cause issues. I got a trochus today and noticed this on it while watching it climb the glass.

Its a crab! I would assume it’s going to be hard to ID, but being a crab I am guessing bad news. Does anyone have a good guess as to what it is? How do I go about removing it?

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Banded across crap or something acro.crab is my guess. Really small.
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Acro*

 

[Dburr1014]

Banded across crap or something acro.crab is my guess. Really small.
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Lol across crap crab. Too funny!

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Banded acro crab* dang phone. Lol
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[LiquidSpace]

Any ideas how to get it off? Once I went to get some tweezers it retreated into shell and now when the snail comes out the crab is staying in the shell. I managed to get it out of my tank at least.

 

[Projects with Sam]

That is actually a good crab?

 

[Projects with Sam]

I found another post here about a snail-living crab:

Small White crab on snail?

So, I was looking at my tank just a little bit ago and I say this little white crab on one of my snails. So as any concerned tank owner I looked up what it was and found no use full info. So I have come to all of you for help to find out what it is and if it is a good or bad crab. Here’s a...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[damsels are not mean]

Don't think it's an acro crab but interesting for sure. It reminds me of a xenia crab but doesn't have those markings. I think maybe it's a baby of something.