Please help me ID this crab...

[MC Lighting]

I am not sure what kind it is and am wondering if it might be part of my disapearing fish problem....

Thanks for the help

 

[MC Lighting]

could the moderator please move this over to the inverts forum so it can be looked at thanks....

 

[Jojoyojimbi]

looks an awful lot like a sally lightfoot crab

 

[MC Lighting]

Thanks, I thought Sally Lite foots were not black that makes me feel a bit better

 

[coralnut99]

Sally Lite for sure, and at what looks to be a good size, is quite possibly a cause for your fish being here today, gone tommorrow. As they get bigger their food pallete gets broader to include resting fish, and meandering snails. Some years ago, one of those buggers cost me nearly $50 in snails before I wised up.

 

[DouglasTiede]

it is a sally lightfoot, perfectly harmless reef crab, loves to eat deturis on the sand and LR. eats alage too.. you can keep more then one in a tank too! they are beautiful crabs.. kind of mystic green shimmers in their exoskeleton