Coralline eating crab..got it..

XeniaMania

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I saw this crab that resembled a Gorilla crab, except it had bigger black claws but it had the super hairy legs and body. I saw it scraping coralline off my rocks, and further examination shows that it had been clawing away at different parts of the rocks since there are scrape marks. Well, fortunately for me, it was on a upper piece of rock yesterday, I would have saved it and put it in my fuge, but the crab wanted to make things difficult on me, so I took the rock out of the water, and grabbed a metal utensil used to dig crab meat out of their shells. Before I did it, I thought "how ironic, this tool is used on your larger cousins, but I will use it to dig you out of this rock!" So I mashed it until I could see loose appendages and some orange mush (possibly eggs). Then I put the rock back into the water and saw a lot of bristles come out to clean up. I think my coralline will grow a bit quicker now..:D
 

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