Gorilla crab?

[RandyT5]

This guy is huge, been trying to catch him for weeks. What the heck is this thing?

 

[Greybeard]

Some sort of stone crab... not positive on the ID, but it'd make a great sump monster

 

[BZOFIQ]

agreed with above poster on Sump duty.

 

[RandyT5]

Oh yeah he/she is in the sump. Apparently angry to be moved from the 90 to a tiny sump.

 

[Labridaedicted]

Delicious with butter.

 

[Katrina71]

Crabzilla. Interesting claws, look like a vice grip.

 

[icedgxe]

That’s crazy!! How did you end up catching him. I have a few I want to send to the sump.

 

[Labridaedicted]

I suppose I should provide a somewhat serious answer, as well, haha.

I don't have a species for you, but that type of claw shape is typical of herbivores. If you look at mithraxs, you'll see that flat paddle shaped tip. It's designed for plucking algae. Most predatory crabs like stones have pointy tips on their claws.

I'd still probably sump or fuge him though as all crabs can become opportunistic when hungry and I'd wager a guy that big is hungry often.

 

[RandyT5]

That’s crazy!! How did you end up catching him. I have a few I want to send to the sump.

He liked to hide under one of the huge rocks and only came out once a week maybe. I waited for him to pop out and I chased him into the open with a long stick. And then grabbed him.

I suppose I should provide a somewhat serious answer, as well, haha.

I don't have a species for you, but that type of claw shape is typical of herbivores. If you look at mithraxs, you'll see that flat paddle shaped tip. It's designed for plucking algae. Most predatory crabs like stones have pointy tips on their claws.

I'd still probably sump or fuge him though as all crabs can become opportunistic when hungry and I'd wager a guy that big is hungry often.

He did do a number on algea. I took him out cause he was a pain, always re arranging frags and rocks. I feed pretty heavy and he loves table shrimp.

 

[Shroom]

This guy is huge, been trying to catch him for weeks. What the heck is this thing?

I wonder if this is the same crab in a juvenile phase

 

[Cthulukelele]

I wonder if this is the same crab in a juvenile phase

Yours is some form of xanthid crab. Real bad boys. The scavenging unkillable murder hobos of the ocean. It has cutty cutty claws for eating flesh and a hairy body. The one they posted was a particularly gigantic mithrax crab that has scrapy scrapy claws for eating algae and a smooth body (legs can still be hairy as they get REALLY old).

 

[kjkszpj9]

Yeah the claw ends are flat like emerald crabs which would suggest it grazes on algae on rocks etc, but its huge and probably a sump crab.