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REBridges
Mon, 4th Nov 2013, 09:22 PM
Check out this video. Found this guy just chilling inside one of my favite brain coral frags. Anybody have in idea what kind of crab it is? And is it safe?
http://youtu.be/y97B-WmYjtw
~Ryan

ClamFan
Mon, 4th Nov 2013, 10:48 PM
I hope its not this: http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/identification/27215-gall-crab.html
This is another one I found: https://www.google.com/#q=Paguritta+crab+

Hopefully its the lesser of 2 evils.

envy
Mon, 4th Nov 2013, 10:58 PM
Just a guess here hard to tell from video but my guess is Trapezia Crab. Do you have any Pocillopora or Acropora? If so might of come from there and it should be reef safe since they form a symbiotic relationship with the host coral.

envy
Mon, 4th Nov 2013, 11:01 PM
is there any way of getting a closer image of it