Okay, I got some photos of her. She hid until she had her babies, but she has been out the last couple of nights. She likes to dig in the sand. She hangs out in that same corner and covers herself with sand when I shine in a flashlight. I've never seen her near the corals or any other inverts.
Again, she looks a great deal like a bad crab, but her body is only about an inch long and she is sexually mature. Also note the pinchers. For scale I included a pen - my hands are not that large.
Anyway, I'm too attached to get rid of her now, so I will keep in her own tank if she a bad guy or it she gets too big for comfort.
There must be several of these in my tank to be procreating. I've not gotten any new live rock in several months. Anyone else had tiny crabs with eggs?
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