Anyone able to identify this crab?

[Reef Junky150]

Found it years ago. Lives in my refugium now. Was loosing fish so I tore tank down to catch it after seeing it in the dark walking around in the tank one night. It never went into any of the traps I used for other inhabitants in the past. Haven't lost a fish since.

It is White/purple/redish with yellow to Orange hairy legs. Black claws.

 

[Brewman1987]

Looks like a gorilla crab judging by the black claw tips.

 

[Reef Junky150]

Nasty thing. Lost a lot of cuc and about 4 fish. Couldn't figure out why until I saw it one night. Couldn't trap it so I ended up tearing all the rock out. Still couldn't find it until that night it was running around. Left it for the next morning to get it out and it was gone. Poked the sand bed with a dowel rod and found it hurried itself. Biggest pia hitchhiker I've ever had.

 

[Naiad]

I would guess a rock crab. Knowing location could help with specific species id.

 

[Oscaror]

+1 looks like a gorilla crab. Keep it in the fuge, no need to harm it where it can't damage anything.

 

[Reef Junky150]

I would guess a rock crab. Knowing location could help with specific species id.

Location in reef tank, or my physical location?

 

[Naiad]

Location the rock was harvested from. Was this gulf live rock, tonga, ect.

 

[killingseed2000]

looks like that one that ate many of my high end zoa's. evil , he knew which ones cost me the most.

 

[Reef Junky150]

Location the rock was harvested from. Was this gulf live rock, tonga, ect.

Fiji live rock with tonga, obtained some rock from a local for free and suspect it Hitchiked then since I had no issues the previous 9 years or so until I found it. Not sure what the rock was I obtained other than looked a lot like my Fiji and and very porus and lots of holes.

 

[Reef Junky150]

+1 looks like a gorilla crab. Keep it in the fuge, no need to harm it where it can't damage anything.

Will never leave the fuge unless I find a new home. Hard to give away a mass murderer.

 

[Naiad]

Yea lots of area then. So best I can do is Xanthid sp. Common names include gorilla and rock crabs. Will eat fish and coral.

 

[Reef Junky150]

Yea lots of area then. So best I can do is Xanthid sp. Common names include gorilla and rock crabs. Will eat fish and coral.

Thanks.