Is this crab reef safe?

[enzo0000]

It came in my reef cleaner pack from liveaquaria. Its quarantined right now because I don't know what it is. Yes, that is a claw (White)

Thx


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[J2T]

Hard to tell from that pic but are the pinchers spoon shaped on that claw or sharp?

 

[reelsilly]

It kinda looks like an emerald crab from the top but ↑ that question may help a bunch

 

[enzo0000]

Here's a close up of the claw...the tip of the claw is brown. I do have a sump/fug i can drop him in, but my fug has corals in it. Is it coral safe?

thx again


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[enzo0000]

anyone...please

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Just toss it in the sump for peace of mind.

 

[J2T]

Its really hard to tell from the pic still, but they sort of look spoon shaped, are they?

 

[enzo0000]

ill have to give it a closer look when i get home tonight? spoon = emerald, right?

 

[J2T]

I think on a basic level yes, though all mithrax crabs aren't green. I've had ruby mithrax crabs in the past and have a black one in my sump right now that was a hitch hiker on a leather coral I had bought. Was about 1/4" across when I found him but has grown up now, completely happy in my sump.

 

[monkeypie102]

Poor dude looks like its been through the ringer... And looks like an emerald crab relative to me...

 

[cooterbrown]

It does look like an emerald crab. I don't trust even them in my reef.

 

[joshPensacola]

it does not look like emerald to me. the claws dont look right. its kinda hard to explain but my mithrix ive had claws had more of a grabbing capability. like at the end the did a 90 degree turn towards the oposing tip and had flat spots to make it easier for them to grab algae. that crabs claws look more predatory and sharp

 

[joshPensacola]

https://www.google.com/search?q=mithrax+crab&rlz=1C1TSNP_enUS495US495&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=5EsYUoaIIeWp2gWIjoDYDw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=dmBWlBu8Gv4gtM%3A%3Bdt8Q2mB1BoAB8M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi24.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fc39%252FNicholeS29%252Fcabdance3.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.reefcentral.com%252Fforums%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D858473%3B635%3B600

 

[Paul B]

I don't know, but is this one reef safe? :facepalm:

 

[Nina51]

paul, looks like that one would be safer on a plate with some melted butter!

 

[Paul B]

I had that same thought, which is why he is gone. Him and a few dozen of his friends. I will collect a few dozen more of them today and if they are also not reef safe, they will also be dinner.

 

[Nina51]

i hear lobsters aren't reef safe either. just sayin'...

 

[peasofme]

doesn't look like an emerald. probably a xanthid. probably not reef safe. cool crab though.

 

[enzo0000]

he's been sumped...