small pink crab id

orcafood · 03/01/2009, 09:55 PM

I have no picture yet, so I am just wondering if anyone will know what it is from my description. It is pink and looks like a small piece of macro algae. It has two legs counting its small cleaner shrimp like claws. Two of the claws, after the small cleaner shrimp like claws are large and very bulky, and the rest of the claws are used as legs and are rather spindly. The crab is not hairy at all. It looks like it is covered in small dull spikes. Similar shape to a decorator crab.
It's about 2-3 in.

As a side note it doesn't seem very hostile, as in it would rather run then fight. It also sways in the current to look like, what I presume, algae.

Anyone have any ideas. Reef safe?

daudelus · 03/02/2009, 03:51 PM

possibly this Hawaiian Stawberry Crab? http://www.pacificeastaquaculture.co...3d4%23I+J31003

Nickjr000 · 03/02/2009, 07:57 PM

Strawberry, I had one. Nice color and reef safe

rendogg · 03/03/2009, 10:46 AM

Sounds like it could be a Spider crab or maybe another type of Decorator. Take a pic and post it.

03/01/2009, 09:55 PM	#1
orcafood Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Raleigh Posts: 864	small pink crab id I have no picture yet, so I am just wondering if anyone will know what it is from my description. It is pink and looks like a small piece of macro algae. It has two legs counting its small cleaner shrimp like claws. Two of the claws, after the small cleaner shrimp like claws are large and very bulky, and the rest of the claws are used as legs and are rather spindly. The crab is not hairy at all. It looks like it is covered in small dull spikes. Similar shape to a decorator crab. It's about 2-3 in. As a side note it doesn't seem very hostile, as in it would rather run then fight. It also sways in the current to look like, what I presume, algae. Anyone have any ideas. Reef safe?

03/02/2009, 03:51 PM	#2
daudelus Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Elizabethtown, PA Posts: 177	possibly this Hawaiian Stawberry Crab? http://www.pacificeastaquaculture.co...3d4%23I+J31003 __________________ ------------------------- 55g long mixed reef. 60lbs LR, 2 x 150 HQI 15k MH, BH 1000 Octopus HOB Skimmer, Sumpless, 2x Hydor Koralia 3s + 1x Hydor Koralia 1, HOB filter for Carbon.

03/02/2009, 07:57 PM	#3
Nickjr000 Moved On Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jersey Posts: 28	Strawberry, I had one. Nice color and reef safe

03/03/2009, 10:46 AM	#4
rendogg Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Abbotsford, B.C. Posts: 578	Sounds like it could be a Spider crab or maybe another type of Decorator. Take a pic and post it.