Hey everyone I just found this little guy on my acropora I'm not sure if hes a good guy or bad guy. My other acropora has some crabs but they're trapezia crabs while this one doesn't seem like one. I used to have some small bandit crabs on a colony but it rtn and they disappear. In the first few pictures is the one I found just recently and there others are my trapezias in a pocillopora, acropora, and a birdsnest.
Crab on acropora
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thenissantech
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Sweet find!
I wouldn't say sweet find, its dark so I would say Cymo melanodactylus. Its an Xanthidae coral crab to be classed as a pest. In an aquarium he can sharp destroy your SPS. There are a few Cymo crabs all with the distinctive hairs and white/blue eyes.
