Crab ID please

[alexkharden]

So I have a crap ton of these crabs in my tank that came in on some Florida LR. There's probably 30 of them, and with volume like that I figure I should know what I'm dealing with. The photos are actually of three separate crabs, two live and one dead, but they all appear to be the same kind.

 

[liverock]

So I have a crap ton of these crabs in my tank that came in on some Florida LR. There's probably 30 of them, and with volume like that I figure I should know what I'm dealing with. The photos are actually of three separate crabs, two live and one dead, but they all appear to be the same kind.

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OK grasshopper....you have porcelain crabs..coolest guys on the planet...crab wise.....use my ID list

http://tbsaltwater.com/thepackage/organisms.html

welcome to real live rock...and $10 each hitchhikers LOL...:lolspin:

 

[alexkharden]

That is very cool! Those are definitely the ones I have, by the droves So far I haven't seen any other kind. So, the only two bad hitchhikers I know so far are the ovulid and the mantis shrimp.

 

[Betta132]

You can probably catch a bunch of 'em and trade them to your LFS for a reasonably considerable amount of credit. That's a few hundred bucks worth of crabs if sold at retail price.

 

[alexkharden]

You can probably catch a bunch of 'em and trade them to your LFS for a reasonably considerable amount of credit. That's a few hundred bucks worth of crabs if sold at retail price.

I never thought it'd of that, but I'll have to check it out. Unfortunately, I only have one little lfs here locally that sells saltwater anything. Apparently this area isn't reef safe, lol

 

[Shawn O]

Come spring time you can package them up and ship them all over the country.
If some of those unwanted critters wound up in my mailbox, I'd sure give 'em a rock to live in.

 

[ManEatingGuppy]

Ohh nice. Which supplier did the rocks come from?

 

[alexkharden]

Ohh nice. Which supplier did the rocks come from?

Tampa bay saltwater. Highly recommended!