help id'ing a crab

[nymedic]

I just put 2 new pieces of florida live rock from my LFS i live in the tampa area and he said it is locally grown farmed rock. Today i found a small crab that has claws and these two appendages that look like fans and he uses them to sweep things into his mouth. His legs look stripped. Thats the best discription i can give you. Is he dangerous, will he start killing every thing in my tank, because i woke up this am and my sebae clowns eye was popping out of his head. I havent added any new fish to introduce disease, its not cloudy and it happened overnight. Any ideas folks? :?

 

[Kowkilla]

Im not an expert but I think that if he has the fan type appendages he is a filter feeder and no danger to the other inhabitants of your tank. As far as the clown, I dunno...



Good luck
Kowkilla

 

[nymedic]

I dont think he's a filter feeded because he eats flake food when i feed the fish.. But Thanks for the input

 

[Will C1]

sounds like you might have a lybia or a pom pom crab, do the fans look like little anemone's? if it is dont worry their usually harmless, but some fishes like to munch on them.

 

[ThrillYa]

the HHFaq has a picture of an Anemone crab... http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/pictur ... ecrab.html does it look like that?

Mike J

 

[nymedic]

It looks exactly like that thanks