Please help identify crab

[axe]

Sorry if this is off topic for this forum. I am trying to identify this crab. It's about the size of a quarter in diameter. I got it from a LFS and the owner said its a scavenger that won't bother my seahorses, but I want a second opinion on that. Here's a picture

 

[the other tang]

Don't know about the seahorse, but he looks like a zoo muncher I had a year ago.

 

[gman0526]

Looks like some kind of fiddler crab. IMO not a goood addition to a SH tank.

 

[nUgZ]

I'd say fiddler as well. As gman said, not good for your tank. Take him back to that LFS, smack the guy who told you to get him with the crab, and don't go back.

 

[costello303]

what crabs, if any, can you have with seahorses?

 

[gman0526]

Honestly I wouldn't risk any. Is there a purpose of adding a crab to the tank or you just plain like them?

 

[PoukieBear]

It looks like what Melev has identified as an Acro Crab. LINK TO MELEV'S ID SITE

 

[GSMguy]

fidler crab ditch it now

 

[gman0526]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8996338#post8996338 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by PoukieBear
It looks like what Melev has identified as an Acro Crab. LINK TO MELEV'S ID SITE

If you mean this little guy:

That's a different crab.

 

[blackheart]

 

[blackheart]

acro crabs are smaller than a dime. However when i was in costa rica those crab were running around every where if i where you i would boil it then eat it with some butter man they are good

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