Good or Bad Acropora crab???

[Kataro]

Well I got this lil guy out of a SPS colony I just bought from my LFS, he's sitting in a little container awaiting for his fate to be decided by all you SPS keepers:thumbsup:

There's a commensal acropora crab within the colony (less than an inch .75"?), and then this guy... VERY VERY VERY VERY small.

 

[Kataro]

anyone?? Gotta go bed soon and dont wanna leave this guy out since it gets cold (dont have fuge)

 

[lubyone1]

Hard to tell from pic but if he's furry he's bad most likely. If it looks like he's a burglar (a black strip over each eye then he's good).

 

[Kataro]

It kinda does look like he have a black stripe over both of his head... and I dont see any hair on his body nor leg.... But it was just the color that confuse me since most of the commensal crab I've seen arent grey / brown

 

[acrodave]

looks bad.. but when in doubt throw it out

 

[SanJuan]

I would have to disagree, it looks like a damaged commensal crab.

 

[ryshark]

Looks like an acro crab to me too.

 

[Kataro]

cool! I place him back into my tank in a mini colony... hopefully he will survive and grow

 

[Jim96SC2]

Looks good, but keep an eye on him. Any hair or claws and to the fuge he goes.

 

[Atomikk]

good vs bad

good vs bad

A good article on good vs bad crab identification..

http://blog.fragd.it/2009/10/07/help-i-got-acro-crabs/

 

[slapshot]

Looks bad to me also. I would say young bad one. I agree with when it doubt throw it out.

 

[ryshark]

A close up picture would be nice, but it looks like it has that black line going from eye to eye(thats why I thought good) just like the link atomikk put above. Plus it looks smooth shelled.

 

[Kataro]

he disappeared in the night... no longer in my mini colony nor the big one which he came from...

Hopefully he will show up again in the future... not hairy and scary

 

[joshrules123456]

ive had bad ones, and he doesnt look like one of them at all to me, other than the fact that he is a little crab you found in an acro. get a closer pic if you can, if you notice patches of pollups missing, usually on your longer polluped sps, its definatly a bad one, and it needs to die.