ID this crab please

[geordie]

http://hosting11.imagecross.com/image-hosting-40/516DSC02592.JPG (http://www.imagecross.com/)
looks like fumanchu on a good day

[Macca]

did he have a wee hole in a coral? symphyllia or some sort of meat coral?

[sailin_home]

geordie's got crabs again, rofl,

[geordie]

geordie's got crabs again, rofl,

Oh no there not mine honest lol..

Yeah it was among euphilia as far as I gather m8

[Macca]

i dont know it latin name but i had the same species before and never seen it cause any harm apart from clearing its entrance where the meat coral kept trying to repair the crabs enclosure due to it being within the corals living tissue.

[geordie]

Odd one init,I kind of like it realy..
Thanks

[Macca]

ye the most come hitch hiker is the xanthidae family which this is not. was doing some researc on the xanthid crabs (most common in our reef tanks and just read they can kill you!







if ingested!, their poisons stay within them when cooked, so dont eat.

[sailin_home]

lol, macca you're weird!!!

[cl0wn]

did he have a wee hole in a coral? symphyllia or some sort of meat coral?

another macca freebie?

[Macca]

At university I knew someone that eat goldfish! :-(

[Gaters]

That is a gall crab

[Gaters]

They tend to live in symbiosis with corals and normally,like Macca said, they'll only 'damage' the fleshy coral around their hole.

[Macca]

They tend to live in symbiosis with corals and normally,like Macca said, they'll only 'damage' the fleshy coral around their hole.

Neil, you certainly know your crabs.