I recently bought a medium rock full of encrusting lemon xenia...or so it was named at the LFS. It looks like pompom but without the stalk and like the name says it just grows horizontally without pulsing. Now after acclimating the xenia for a bit i pulled it out of the bucket and noticed a small white crab with 1 big claw and 1 small claw with a brown pattern on its back??? Any idea what this guy could be? I put him in the tank anyway thinking he was fine but later thought about it a bit more and went to look for him but he was gone. Today i found that he has molted. I cant really take a picture of him since i havent been able to see him since i put him in the tank. Plus i dont know how to add a picture on this place hahah. Any advice would be helpful.
ID on Crab please!
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possibly a porcelain?
http://marinedepotlive.com/porcelain-crab---neopetrolisthes-species-inverts--crabs.html
http://marinedepotlive.com/porcelain-crab---neopetrolisthes-species-inverts--crabs.html
Germanman
My fish are my babies
Germanman
My fish are my babies
they are always ref safe and are usually filter feeders..so they will eat food from the water DT's live phyto is a great food for them.
but porceliens' claws are the same size. i supose it is possible that if one was broken off, the smaller one could be one growing back. I think a picture would be pretty much necessary if it isnt a porcelein. perhaps you could take a picture of the shell that molted? For what i have seen, they are also much more active so you would have seen it most likely. They have to be out in the open in a good amount of flow to filter phyto as germanman mentioned, so you see them quite often.
