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Had to post this because I could not for the life of me find a crab that matched anything online to this one. Can anyone ID this???

For the past year this thing has been annihilating all my invertebrates, snails, star fish, and a fish aswell that mysteriously disappeared. I had to keep buying a clean up crew.

Decided to do a reefscape update and finally caught this lil demon. It used to be the size of my thumb, now its twice the size. Its freakin huge. Despite the hell it put me through Im still going to take it to a LFS and find it a better home.
 

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hmmmm - what did it hitch hike in on? It kinda looks like a Stone Crab to me with the way it kinda folds it's pinchers up under it's body but the colors are off.
 
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hmmmm - what did it hitch hike in on? It kinda looks like a Stone Crab to me with the way it kinda folds it's pinchers up under it's body but the colors are off.
I added one piece of live rock and it must have gotten in that way.
I cycled my own dry rock when I started the tank so I started off with no hitch hikers.
 

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Juvenile gorilla crab. Banish to the sump.
 

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