Need Crab id

[jfoxx81]

been trying to get this sucker out for months he's been eating my snails i believe!

 

[jfoxx81]

.....somebody

 

[Experiment397]

well is it salt or fresh water? cause if its fresh, then thats a red claw crab. if its salt water then i cant help ya man.

 

[jfoxx81]

well is it salt or fresh water? cause if its fresh, then thats a red claw crab. if its salt water then i cant help ya man.

its a salty had to have came in with my live rock in january

 

[Kevin8888]

I'm leaning towards one of the Xanthidae... The Xanthidae family of crabs are the most agressive crab verieties. They not only eat what ever they can get from fish to corals to snails to other crabs, but they will also destroy your live rock, as wile they grow they make the hole they are hiding in bigger, which slowly gets bigger and bigger until it becomes a structural problem.

SO... your best bet is to remove and feed to a crab predator (so its not wasted haha).

 

[jfoxx81]

I'm leaning towards one of the Xanthidae... The Xanthidae family of crabs are the most agressive crab verieties. They not only eat what ever they can get from fish to corals to snails to other crabs, but they will also destroy your live rock, as wile they grow they make the hole they are hiding in bigger, which slowly gets bigger and bigger until it becomes a structural problem.

SO... your best bet is to remove and feed to a crab predator (so its not wasted haha).

well ive taken it out and its in my fuge....someone thinks its a juvenile gorilla crab...but it doesnt seem to have much hair so i dunno just glad i got him out

 

[Kevin8888]

Entirely possible, things change as they get older also Xanthidae covers a number of different crabs, so Gorilla crabs could be one of them.

 

[jfoxx81]

heres a better pic pulled it off the web but its exactly what it looks like!

 

[Kevin8888]

Not gorilla crab... at least not like the ones ive seen on a quick search, BUT crabs with black claws are almost always agressive predators. I'm still leaning towards my origonal ID, but even if I'm wrong, all crabs are omnivors so when they get big enough, they WILL eat anything the like.

Here is a link to most of the Xanthidae crabs, keep in mind colours/patterns can very from crab to crab.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/reefs/guamimg/crustacea/xanthidae/index.html

 

[jfoxx81]

Not gorilla crab... at least not like the ones ive seen on a quick search, BUT crabs with black claws are almost always agressive predators. I'm still leaning towards my origonal ID, but even if I'm wrong, all crabs are omnivors so when they get big enough, they WILL eat anything the like.

Here is a link to most of the Xanthidae crabs, keep in mind colours/patterns can very from crab to crab.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/reefs/guamimg/crustacea/xanthidae/index.html

thanks i was looking for something like that...