How bout a blue mithrax crab

[acrodave]

This guy must have came in on my rock and i have been hunting him down for week after i found him in my tank.Well i just found him in one of my more special acros and so i snatched it out and snapped a few pics before it took the long trash ride.

 

[Runner]

Kind of cute. We should start a "nightmare" tank around here somewhere where people can dump things like this into. My 2' worm, Mel's rock crab, this little guy. Any volunteers?

 

[acrodave]

im glad to see you think this guy is a nightmare .I posted this in the reef discussion and im getting bashed for taking it out and getting rid of it

 

[Runner]

Mel hasn't posted yet.

 

[Lint_Licker]

Thats an acro crab, they are actually pretty good for cleaning pests etc out of acro's.

 

[acrodave]

no thats not a acro crab trust me

 

[Lint_Licker]

Its definetly not a mithrax crab, thats in the Xanthidae crab family, not the Mithraculus.


Family Xanthiidae; Mud, Round Crabs, Boxing and Pom-Pom Crabs (genus Lybia). Have round/oval carapaces, dark tipped claws/chelae. Small, usually less than two inches across.

 

[acrodave]

True acro crabs are smooth this guy has hariy legs. Acro crabs have sharp claws this one have scoops on it for eating algae

 

[Lint_Licker]

Reguardless of what it is, I dont trust any crabs. ALL crabs are omnivores and are opportunistic eaters. If they can catch a sleeping fish and eat it, they will. Hermits are known snail killers. I caught a Green Mithrax (emerald crab) "red clawed"(red handed, haha) eating a Abalone, shell in one claw, eating it with the other. Not to mention that crabs can carry ich and other fish parasites.

 

[acrodave]

Oh im behind you 100% on that. Sorry if i was trying to get into it with you. Im trying to defend what you just said in the reef discussion room and im getting bashed every with way so i was kinda in the defence

 

[Runner]

Hmmm. I'll have to go check it out. Engineers take to arguments like pigs take to mud....

 

[Lint_Licker]

Im not an engineer, but I like a good fight, hahaha!

 

[Runner]

"Senseless killing". Heh. Should have taken it to your local reef store, eh?

I got the same when I told them I killed the monster worm and eater of untold zoanthids form my tank:
http://www.easttnreefclub.com/pics/Meeting3_full.jpg

One guy sounded like he was going to cry when I posted that I disposed of him in an "inhumane manner". Perhaps I should have slowly roasted him over a candle rather than just tossing him in the trash can, but I digress...

 

[Lint_Licker]

I posted my 2 cents on the reef discussion.

 

[ct_vol]

Looks like a mithrax to me... I have one in my 120... should probably catch him... I just haven't had the time... Oh well... He was purty...

 

[Runner]

Too bad Mel's rock crab died (I am thinking he got too close to the return pump while molting from the location of his remains). We could have put those two together in a 1 quart jar and let them fight it out over a dead fish or something.

 

[ct_vol]

Oooooh!!! A crab death match... That would be a good way to get meetings started, and earn a little side cash...

 

[Pandarian]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11166977#post11166977 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by acrodave
I posted this in the reef discussion and im getting bashed for taking it out and getting rid of it

You threw it away Dave?!? I'm going to have to bash you for this one. That would have made great mantis food. :mad2:

 

[acrodave]

in my defence it was in the middle of the night and i just happy to get it out

 

[ct_vol]

Did you pull all his legs off and watch him suffer???