Hermit Crab different from others

Gunsnroses

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I bought 20 hermits from my LFS and they all had blue legs and red antenna. This one has mainly white claws and black and white antenna. It's she'll and claws are much larger than the others. Anything special about this guy?
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No bands. I am pretty sure it's not a Zebra because the legs and claws are solid white. I can't find a picture online of this guy anywhere online.
 
The antenna is black with evenly spaced white dots on them. And the eye protrusions are white with a black stripe and the face is mainly black, dotted with white.
I am going to try to get a better picture tomorrow during feeding time. These things go nuts as soon as food hits the water column.
 
The reason I asked about the banding is because there is a hermit that is sold on the east coast that is collected from waters here to be used as CUC.

But, they grow to tennis ball sized and are 100% not reef safe.
 
The reason I asked about the banding is because there is a hermit that is sold on the east coast that is collected from waters here to be used as CUC.

But, they grow to tennis ball sized and are 100% not reef safe.
These guys?
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The legs on the one posted look plain white to me.
 
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Few pics from this morning. Deffinatly a bandeye.
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