Tiny Pink Crab on Pink Birdsnest ?

[gary faulkner]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11610234#post11610234 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lhoy
We have GOT to stop prolmugating the myth that if it is hairy it is bad. Please go read some of Leslie's invormation on the web about crabs!!!

Many people remove a crab that is great to have.

Lee

Got a link?

 

[idareefer]

your little crab is fine, like others have said, put him back in your coral, it's the hairy ones you need to get out, they can eat up your corals in no time, and will move from one coral to another, but your little guy, OK.

 

[Chad Vossen]

oh man, i want one now...

 

[lhoy]

Gary,

Sorry for the delay, I lost this thread for a bit.

I am not sure it is okay to post a link to another forum, if not, then please forgive me and may the mods remove it:

http://forum.marinedepot.com/Forum11-1.aspx

Leslie posts frequently here.

Lee

 

[gary faulkner]

Hey, thanks for all the help.

I have already placed the crab back into the Pink Birdsnest.

Since getting this coral and crab I discovered that this Birdsnest along with a Pink Milli, Green Milli and a White Acro with blue tips all came in with beneficial crabs in each coral. Kind of unusual, I think.

Oh and I also found a tiny hairy crab in the Pink Bird and he is now history because I could see him actually eating the polyps on the coral.

 

[darkangler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11580677#post11580677 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LeslieH
That's a Trapezia, an obligate commensal crab on lives on pocilloporid corals. It's harmless and even beneficial to its host.

Thank you. Everyone gets so excited to kill and throw things away. I've never seen a harmful crab come in with a stoney coral. It's is almost always a commensal shrimp or crab that has lived with it. Please do more research before just killing an animal.