Xenia Swimming Crab

krollins · Mar 18, 2024

Does anyone know anything about these.
https://coralsanonymous.com/collections/invertebrates/products/xeni-crab

Readywriter · Mar 18, 2024

krollins said:
Does anyone know anything about these.
https://coralsanonymous.com/collections/invertebrates/products/xeni-crab

Id laugh if they turn out to be invasive

ISpeakForTheSeas · Mar 19, 2024

These stay small (reportedly about 1"/2.5 cm), live in xeniid corals (though they've reportedly been found on Pocillopora [both live and dead], Stylophora [only dead], and Acropora [only live] corals before too; it's uncertain if these corals had xeniid corals growing on/near them or not),* and it's thought (but not confirmed) that they feed on their host coral's tissue.**

*Source:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439609208000111**Source:
https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/05/07/25/00001/EVANS_N.pdf