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Pico1
05/10/2006, 06:31 PM
Its the same one as in the picture. It hides in my zenia. Will it harm anything in my tank?
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f78/jordino13/jordin.jpg
Pico1
05/10/2006, 07:15 PM
anemone crab?
Pico1
05/10/2006, 08:07 PM
30 veiws and nobody knows?
Fragmented
05/10/2006, 08:13 PM
Reading the small print:

Cover: A commensal crab in Xenia. Photo by Greg Rothschild.
Pico1
05/10/2006, 08:18 PM
thanks fragmented
MandM
05/10/2006, 08:23 PM
Lissocarcinus laevis, a commensal crab. That's by best shot.
General opinion is negative from what I could find.
Wetwebmedia (http://www.wetwebmedia.com/swcrabidfaq2.htm)
says take him out
My books say those big claws serve a purpose and they will eat whatever is around, food, detritus and polyps.
Off to the sump with him. He can play in the cheato and be harmless there.