Please help ID these...anemone & crab pic (both came on

[mer-lady]

I am new to all this fun stuff. I got 3 crabs and 3 anemones on my LR, I am almost done cycling, And before I add my new fish I wanted to know what these were. The crab is hiding under the shell.I don't see them often he is a pretty maroon color with white marble looking stripes,he has big pinchers.One crab is hairy brown.Both are about the size of a nickel. The one anemone is soooo pretty it's light pink with little bubble tips(please say it's good). The others are differant I don't know what they are either. Thanks for your help.

 

[TZL]

well here's what i can tell you

the crab in pic two is good, its a porcealin crab, a harmless filter feeder.

The hairy crab is most likely bad, rule of thumb for crabs, hairy = bad.

 

[mer-lady]

I'm glad the red crab is ok .He's big but neat looking Thanks

 

[TZL]

well just to make sure, when you see him out in the open, he should be using two claws to filter feed, my porcealin crab looks exactly like that pattern, but then again, there could be a bad crab in the see that looks like that too

I'm glad the red crab is ok .He's big but neat looking Thanks