Found this creatures in live rock. New to reefing

[Fishcrisp]

I found these shrimps and bristle stars and crabs. Are they safe for reef?

Is the top one a pistol shrimp and the bottom a cleaning shrimp?

 

[fishguy242]

hi stars are safe,crabs unsure,can you get better pics of shrimp?

 

[Fishcrisp]

Close up pics on shrimps

 

[Fishcrisp]

Heres anothee one

 

[sfin52]

Pistol shrimp.

 

[fishguy242]

pretty sure mantis shrimp,are feelers white on other?

 

[Fink]

Man, I need to buy from better places, all of my hitchhikers are nuisances

 

[fishguy242]

what about the crabs guys?

 

[fishguy242]

i don't like any in my reef,but seem to have small claws ?reef safe? good score "fish" seems to be cleaner shrimp to me

 

[Fink]

He looks similar to this one that @Crabs McJones identified as a juvenile gorilla crab. Do they look kinda fuzzy? Obviously Mr. Mcjones is a better judge than me though

Hitchhiker Killer Crab

Had to post this because I could not for the life of me find a crab that matched anything online to this one. Can anyone ID this??? For the past year this thing has been annihilating all my invertebrates, snails, star fish, and a fish aswell that mysteriously disappeared. I had to keep buying a...

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[Fishcrisp]

Heres another pic of the shrimp. So do i keep the shrimp?

 

[Fishcrisp]

Another with flash

 

[Fishcrisp]

I keep hearing a popping sound

 

[Fink]

I keep hearing a popping sound

makes me think pistol shrimp like @sfin52 said. Also that one big beefy arm

 

[fishguy242]

agree seeing arms,imo sump or rid crabs,both are pistol

 

[Fishcrisp]

makes me think pistol shrimp like @sfin52 said. Also that one big beefy arm

So its okay to keep?

 

[Joseph Disalvo]

So its okay to keep?

Free cleaner shrimp +1

 

[Tori]

Seems like they're both pistol shrimp to me.

 

[fishguy242]

larger claws kidna agree