hitchhiker crab... should he stay or should he go

[donf]

He arrived today with my LR.com shipment.
does he go in my FOWLR tank.. or is he unwanted?
Thanks

 

[revhtree]

Looks bad to me.

Hairy + pointy pinchers = Bad

Put him in a fuge, or give him to the lfs.

 

[JPloman]

He needs to go!!!

 

[donf]

thanks. I will give to the LFS.

 

[JPloman]

I dont think your lfs will want him, but that is just me.

I would do the Mexican Hat Dance on him! O'lay!

 

[Rach101]

aww thats mean.. even if hes meanie and bad.. he is still gods creature<3

 

[JPloman]

After I had one eat my fish I no longer like them or will give them any slack. They eat fish friends... and fish are friends, not food!

 

[Hara]

I like crabs, wonderful creatures for your sump.

 

[Rach101]

cats eat mice.. and i still love cats..

 

[JPloman]

I like crabs, wonderful creatures for your sump.

My husband says that too. Do you ever find your sump snails dead from your crabs? I would hate to have to buy more sump snails because of a hungry crab.

 

[Rach101]

They eat fish friends... and fish are friends, not food!

Tell that to feeder goldfish

 

[dralarms]

I had one just like that in my 46 with 2 clowns and 2 pep's. never bothered anything, even ran when I tossed it some shrimp 8O . After quite a while I decided he would be ok in my 150. Well big mistake. My scotter blenny ended up MIA. I figured I did something wrong , however my son gave me one of those nice purple urchuins, the ones with long spines. Said he looked it up on liveaquara.com and it was about a 30 dollar item. Well within 30 min of placing it in my tank this stupid crab had broken off 25 to 30 of his spines , I tricked it into a glass with some shrimp and dumped it in my sump, 2 days later the urchin is dead. I guess it just couldn't recover.

My new rule is crab (unless porcilcine) is evil and I don't want them in my tank, I do have a few hermits left but not many, guess this crab was snacking on them as well.

In other words, get rid of it.

 

[quarryshark]

Take it to the LFS or place in the the sump. They didn't asked to be yanked out of the sea and I see no reason to brutalize it.
I found an emerald picking away at me CC star the other day. The LFS took him back with no problem.
Some months ago I had a hitchhiker crab take out my scooter as well. That sucker was getting huge. Finally caught him and took him to my LFS. I believe that one became Puffer food, I didn't ask. At least it was a semi natural demise if thats what happened.

 

[Ducky]

I would put it in one of my sumps as I do with most creatures that I do not want in my tanks.