Please Help ID this Hermit Crab

[55semireef]

That looks awsome. I am getting some soon at the KEyes. They are so cool.

 

[bob21115]

I thought it was live rock when I first look at the picture. He cool why dont you like him?

 

[skippy2]

When I first got him he was so small. Now he is the size of my fist. What's scary is I have had him only 6 months. He decorates himself with sponges, zoo polyps, mushrooms and whatever else he thinks will camafloge him. When he is up by a coral or a piece of lr I can't see him till he moves. That's how full of MY corals he is!!!

 

[55semireef]

Thats sweet. lol. I want one bad. Do they harm corals?

 

[bob21115]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7562705#post7562705 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
Thats sweet. lol. I want one bad. Do they harm corals?

There not suppose to, but it depends on what you would call harm. If he rips off coral and zoo's and such I think I would call that harm.

skippy2 How big is your tank and could you return him to a LFS?

 

[skippy2]

My tank is a 75. I have a friend who wants him but I have no idea how to get him out. I really am scared of him.
The premise behind a decorator crab being reefsafe is that he does help to spread corals around the tank.

 

[55semireef]

To some extent, I am sure they can harm but if its a small piece, it probably won't be that bad if its a tank with good parm. for the coral to make an easy recovery. I wonder if mushrooms actually start growing on them when they rip off pieces of the shrooms. Esentially that is fragging a mushroom right?

 

[smy168]

it looks...gooey