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Hello there, I'm new to R2R so I apologize in advance if I've posted this in
the wrong area. Seems like this would be the place to ask though. I work at a pet store and I am the aquatics specialist (The fish guy as some customers like to call it), today I discovered this little dude in one of our towers. He was hanging out in a crevice of a rock and seemed to be doing standard crab stuffs, the carapace and legs are similar to an emerald crab but it is not nearly as smooth and it's covered in tiny "hairs" it also has some blueish tints across it's body and pretty distinct black and white bands on it's legs. The pedipalps have a little bit of blue and orange aswell and one is slightly bigger than the other but I don't think that is indicative of anything, I've seen some emeralds that look like fiddler's before. Regardless I figured it would be worth mentioning. From some quick Google searches I've found porcelain crabs (petrolisthes galathinus) I only put the scientific so as not to be confused with the porcelain anemone crabs (neopetrolithes oshimai). Still I don't quite think that's what this dude is. I'm sorry if the pictures aren't quality enough and there isn't much to show scale. He is roughly the diameter of a dime, I can try to get a few more in a different specimen container if that will help anyone. Thank you!