Crab. Good or bad

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Sorry for the quality. Found him a month ago in my Birdsnest. Just been too lazy to do anything about it. Crabs her to freak me out. Please let me know if I should get rid of him. Thanks Rich
 
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Sorry for the quality. Found him a month ago in my Birdsnest. Just been too lazy to do anything about it. Crabs her to freak me out. Please let me know if I should get rid of him. Thanks Rich

Hard to tell with the pic but are the legs hairy? If so it is probably a gorilla crab and is bad. If there is no hair then it might be a acro crab or pocillopora crab which are great, but I'm not thinking that's the case here
 
Google Tetralia cymodoce and Trapezia serenei.
 
Hopefully the crab gods won't kill me. I just flushed him down the toilet :(
 
Hopefully the crab gods won't kill me. I just flushed him down the toilet :(
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If in doubt, that is probably the best move. Especially if you don't have a sump.
 
A small, unidentified crab living in a healthy birdsnest? What a shame. Likely a Trapezia of some sort.

 

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