Please I'd this crab

Yusuf Moiny · May 31, 2019

Please help me I'd this crab
Is it good or bad
If bad , how to find if there are other and catch them

Ron Reefman · May 31, 2019

First, welcome to Reef2Reef.

I can't ID the crab for sure, my wife is the expert and she's not here at the moment. It could be a stone crab but I'm really not sure. They have the black tips on their claws. If it is, it's a carnivore so it will eat snails and other livestock, especially when it gets bigger and grows it's claw back, which it can do.

If you ever need help here and don't get fairly quick replies, you can ask for special help by typing #ReefSquad and some of my friends with more expertise in this area than me will be alerted and try to help.

Good luck, stick around and enjoy the learning experience... oh, and please ask questions when you have them!

Crabs McJones · May 31, 2019

Looks like a gorilla crab

Yusuf Moiny · May 31, 2019

Thanks for replying
How to make sure that there are no more of this
And if there are
How to get rid of them

Yusuf Moiny · May 31, 2019

Ron Reefman said:
First, welcome to Reef2Reef.

I can't ID the crab for sure, my wife is the expert and she's not here at the moment. It could be a stone crab but I'm really not sure. They have the black tips on their claws. If it is, it's a carnivore so it will eat snails and other livestock, especially when it gets bigger and grows it's claw back, which it can do.

If you ever need help here and don't get fairly quick replies, you can ask for special help by typing #ReefSquad and some of my friends with more expertise in this area than me will be alerted and try to help.

Good luck, stick around and enjoy the learning experience... oh, and please ask questions when you have them!

Thanks

Eagle_Steve · May 31, 2019

I second gorilla crab. It has all the fuzzy hairs in the right spots lol.

As for catching any more, there are a ton of ways. My favorite is to take a small sandwich size tupperware container, but a hole in the lid, put some small holes in the sides and then load it with a piece of shrimp. Fish can get in and out, but the crabs will go in the hole in the top and cannot get back out. Large mouth bottles with the top cut off and inverted work well also.

And last but not least. Welcome and glad to have ya here.

Crabs McJones · May 31, 2019

Eagle_Steve said:
I second gorilla crab. It has all the fuzzy hairs in the right spots lol.

As for catching any more, there are a ton of ways. My favorite is to take a small sandwich size tupperware container, but a hole in the lid, put some small holes in the sides and then load it with a piece of shrimp. Fish can get in and out, but the crabs will go in the hole in the top and cannot get back out. Large mouth bottles with the top cut off and inverted work well also.

And last but not least. Welcome and glad to have ya here.

+1^^^

Yusuf Moiny · May 31, 2019

Eagle_Steve said:
I second gorilla crab. It has all the fuzzy hairs in the right spots lol.

As for catching any more, there are a ton of ways. My favorite is to take a small sandwich size tupperware container, but a hole in the lid, put some small holes in the sides and then load it with a piece of shrimp. Fish can get in and out, but the crabs will go in the hole in the top and cannot get back out. Large mouth bottles with the top cut off and inverted work well also.

And last but not least. Welcome and glad to have ya here.

Thanks