Anyone ID this crab please?

[reef addict uk]

Spotted a strange looking crab out of the corner of my eye earlier, tank lights were off but room lights were still on. It's quite small, around an inch, a green but not all green carapace with a longer black pointed snout. Sorry for the photo quality, best I could do, and it's dissappeared now too.

Decorator crab do you think?

cheers,

Mark

 

[LeslieH]

Not a bad picture at all, and better than most pics where the animal is still in the tank. It's a sort of semi-decorator. Not as compulsive about sticking stuff on it's back as a true decorator but one like this will permit sessile organisms like sponges to grow on it's carapace.

 

[LobsterMan]

It's a decorater snail they pick stuff up in the tank they will pick up your inverts to.

 

[LobsterMan]

I mean a decorator crab.

 

[reef addict uk]

Thanks guys, I had a feeling it was from the decorator crab family.

cheers,

Mark