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justthewife
03/24/2013, 04:57 PM
I found the hitchhiker crab from a couple of weeks ago when I was catching my rambo emerald crab. This crab is really tiny and looks like the color of a light colored rock. Slender legs, strange mouth, smaller front claws, not hairy. I have no idea what he is. He is not even as big as a dime. I couldn't get a picture of him because he is super shy. I guess I will try sometime to catch him. He isn't doing any damage but I don't know what he is.

Chaotic Reefer4u
03/24/2013, 05:00 PM
Try and get us a close up picture

Sugar Magnolia
03/24/2013, 05:32 PM
Bait a tall, smooth sided glass with a small piece of raw shrimp or fish and tilt it against the rockwork at night. Crab will crawl in but can't get out. Take pics for an ID.

justthewife
03/25/2013, 08:40 PM
I put the glass in there but still no luck in catching the crab. The shrimp love it though.

silleb
03/25/2013, 09:17 PM
Only luck I've ever had is pulling the rock out, and sometimes that means dismantling tank.