Crab in Yellow Tort Colony. Good or bad? Pic inside.

[SunnyX]

Well this guy has been in the colony for a while now. Coral is healthy and growing, what do you think?

 

[janderson8]

If it is hairy get it out

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

i think acro crabs have more rounded claws as opposed to dangerous pointy clawed crabs......hopefully someone else will chime in

 

[2crazyreefers]

My acro crabs are flat and no hair. When I get them hairy ones I take them out.

 

[TOURKID]

i think all crabs must go

 

[Kent E]

I'm not expert but it looks bad.

 

[DaddyJax]

I believe it to be in the Zebra eel food category!(Bad crab)

 

[SunnyX]

Ok ill try and catch it.

Maybe ill drop it into my 30G cube LPS tank.

 

[mpisciotti]

take it out with twezer

 

[Crazysps]

I would have to agree, that lil guy looks like a devil. The acro crabs tend to be pink or white with almost a set of black sunglasses very cool

 

[trueblackpercula]

round claws most of the time means good
pointy claws means bad always

 

[maggiesaqsup]

The only thing it is missing is the blue eyes.Looks like your tort has some tissue dammage on the left side of the crab. He will not eat alot but will eat acros.I would get it out.

 

[clkwrk]

agreed you have a blue eyed bandit which will eat polyps and flesh . Maybe not fast but will.

 

[Freed]

I had one and watched him break one of the corallites off one of my acros and eat it. It's up to you.

 

[marine_freak]

Just removed the same crab from my purple echinata..... funny almost same size... he is now a trash can crab

 

[twon8]

he looks bad to me.

 

[thebicyclecafe]

Take it out!

 

[njfish77]

ive had a lot of experiance with these guys and they can wipe out a colony pretty fast

 

[Rav-65]

BAD.

Somehow, if you noticed, these "bad" crabs tend to have eyes that are prominent and set far apart.... the acro crabs have smaller eyes...

 

[Nataku]

A have this acro RTNing and couldn't find any flatworm or such. I wait for the morning to view the tank in the dark. I see my emerald crab ( flat tip pinchers ) munching on the the coral. I put the frag on a rack away from the LR. I just wanted to see if the crab was eating it because it was dying or the crab was causing the damage. The acro stopped RTN so I concluded that the crab caused the damage. But the crab is not touching the other corals. The emerald does have hairy legs. I do love porcelain crabs, they are filter feeder. my conclusion is Hair crab = bad.