red emerald crab?

[Kurt03]

This was sold to me as a red emerald crab, just want to make sure its ok before i put it in my reef as the guy at the store didnt have much experience with them.
Its not on melevs site

 

[DaltonJames]

it would be fine just put him in there and if you see him fighting with anything just take a pop bottel and put some food in there and leave it in your tank for the night then he will go in there and take him out he should be ok thow good luck

 

[[17]shawn[17]]

looks like Mithrax forceps, i think they are reef safe

 

[bertoni]

If it's Mithrax forceps, sometimes they are reef safe, but less so than true emerald crabs. It doesn't look like Mithrax forceps to me, but colors and patterns usually aren't very useful for crab identification.

 

[cro55f1r3]

thats will be okay it wont do any harm to your tank but that is not a emerald crab. that crab right there is Porcelain Crab or also known as a anemone crab but thats a nice grab

 

[bertoni]

Good catch! I forgot to count the walking legs.

 

[[17]shawn[17]]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10174409#post10174409 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by [17]shawn[17]
looks like Mithrax forceps, i think they are reef safe

nevermind it is a Porcelain Crab

 

[israelnajar]

Looks like a porcelain or anemone crab to me.

They are filter feeders.

If it was mithrax steer clear if they are red because they have had too much protein if you know what I mean.

 

[Kurt03]

so will they eat bubble algae like emeralds will? Or is that hoping for to much

 

[israelnajar]

They filter feed mostly but will eat other meaty foods if offered.

So I dont think they will touch any algae.

 

[Kurt03]

ok, so nothing like a emerald crab
oh well, at least he looks cool.

 

[Paintbug]

Porcelain Crab for sure, maybe a Porcellana sanmartini
http://www.uni-giessen.de/porcellanidae/Seiten/sanmartini_jpg.htm

they are neat crabs to have, and if you got one for the price of a red Mithrax you got a deal on top of that

 

[israelnajar]

What did you pay for him?

Those guys are 17 here and the emeralds are 8 so if you bought hime for the price of an emerald that is not a bad deal.

I think those are cool dudes but I dont want to get one for my tank as I am sure it will bother the heck out of my anemone.

 

[Kurt03]

i paid the price of a emerald there, i think it was $9
i dont have a anemone for him to bother, he wont mess with frogspawn or avelopora would he?

 

[bertoni]

No, they are fine to have. I'd like one.

 

[Kurt03]

they had several of them, said the suppliers were telling them they were red emeralds. wasnt a lfs chain, just a local shop

 

[bllfish]

I had one for about five years. They do not come out much but they are filter feeders and will not bother your fish or corals.

 

[Kurt03]

hmm guessing they will be ok with a real emerald crab then?

 

[bllfish]

should be fine. I had several emeralds with mine.

 

[Amoore311]

Mine is out all the time. The only time he gets angry is when my Sixline tries to steal food from him. He waves his claws in the air and Mr. Sixline runs away haha.

It's really fun watching them eat. They have two "mitts" that they open up and grab food from the water column.