[DMBillies]

His claws are very small and in the picture they are tucked up into his abdomen so that you can't really see them. I would say that the claw part is shorter in length than the white tips on his legs. I'm familiar with fiddler crabs from having grown up on the Jersey shore and I would agree that they do look a lot like them except for the color and minus the one big claw. Their eyes are on stalks that tip down to the side into those little groves just like the fiddlers I'm familiar with. One big difference I noticed is that, while these guys hide a lot of the time, they aren't at all afraid of me or my hand. Fiddlers (at least wild ones) won't let you get anywhere near them. I had to physically push him back into the water.

If they are intertidal (as I suspected from this behavior) is it necessary for them to be able to get out of the water? If so, ideas on how to make it so they can would be appreciated...