Crab hitcher ID please?

[lumpadelic]

Got this little guy in my live sale shipment from unique corals. I don’t think it’s a gorilla crab, and I hate to see the little guy die senselessly, so he’s in QT till someone tells me what to do!

 

[lrp693]

I had one of these come with a piece of live rock that I got from an offshore reef one time in an old tank. It was the same shape, but a slightly different color (could’ve been older than yours). Anyway, I kept it in the tank for awhile to be a part of the clean up crew just to see what would happen but it ended up nipping about half the tentacles off my anemone and killing several of my snails. I took it to my LFS and they kept it in a quarantine tank to see if they could identify once it matured a bit. Not sure what the outcome was since I moved out of town. This was several years ago but I definitely learned my lesson with unidentifiable hitchhiking crabs! I would proceed with caution though and see if you can get a for sure ID to make sure that it’s reef safe for your tank.

 

[35ppt]

Trust no crab, especially ones with pointy claws.

 

[El_Guapo13]

 

[minus9]

Get a pic of his eyes and claws. Most likely an acro crab, but need to see his eyes and claws first.

 

[BloopFish]

Keep him, hes definitely a Tetralia crab, those things cost $30+ from DD

 

[hllb]

Keep him, hes definitely a Tetralia crab, those things cost $30+ from DD

That looks correct to me as well.

 

[BloopFish]

Honestly if you don't want it I'd take it off your hands if you live in the NYC area

 

[lumpadelic]

Thanks for all the info! Looked up pics of the tetralia crab and it’s definitely a match. Nice freebie, thanks @uniquecorals !