Decorator Crab Leg problems...Help?

[05Xrunner]

Ok so i have my Decorator crab in my tank..Also a Bahama Starfish and a Fuzzy purple crab kinda looks like a stone crab..I got him at a pet store CHEAP cause he was a hitchhiker on some live rock.
Now they have been fine..but just tonight this hairy crab decided to try and eat my decorator. He pulled all but 1leg off and 1 pincer. I already got this mean crab out and in a bucket. So will my decorator be able to regrow his legs or is this just to much damage done to him. He cant move all that well now since the leg and pincer are on the same side.

Looks like this Purple crab is now going to become my octopus food

 

[LeslieH]

He should be able to grow them back. Keep him in a separate container with something to hide in & spot feed lots of food. It will take several molts to get the legs back to full size and that will take a lot of metabolic energy.

 

[05Xrunner]

well I have removed the hairy crab.
The llittle decorator seems to be a trooper.
He doesnt seem to let it get him down..he moves around but not very well. Is eating like crazy and is just hanging out on one of the live rocks now.

 

[650-IS350]

can you Isolate him in a container inside the tank till he malts and gets healthy??? that would be the best way to ensure his survival... but inturn when he gets larger he will do the same to other animals and fish like your gorrilla did...

 

[finsurgeon]

If he's a "spider decorator", he won't hurt anything except the corals he picks to "decorate" himself. Mine was 3-4 inches and never picked a fight - until I got tired of him plucking zooanthids and pieces of softies (carnation and pom-pom xenia) and moved him to my son's tank, where an anemone hermit ate him.