Amazing Crab Growth!

[BrooklynReef]

Last year I noticed this guy, he was half the size of my PINKY NAIL! Can someone tell me what it is?

 

[rcharliesam]

Can't post pics from your computer. Upload it to photobucket or imgur.com and post the link here.

 

[BrooklynReef]

Did it work?


Here too....

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...0811803930398.726392.709835397&type=3&theater

 

[rcharliesam]

Damn, wtf is that?

Sorry, I have no idea.

Maybe some type of spider crab?

 

[Mike389]

That's a spider crab.

 

[Yonkers28]

Wow

 

[ecvernon]

wow it is huge.. what was it eating? is it a Fish only tank or a reef?

 

[skene]

Hopefully you have that in a fish only system... they are not meant to be in a reef tank.

 

[Gabe]

Japanese spider crab.... Yum yum...

 

[magicalmets]

Scary

 

[Tonyscoots84]

That thing is ginormous

 

[BrooklynReef]

Crazy right? Literally after a few months he got that big from nothing! So weird. He was in a (gasp) seahorse tank! The tank did have some soft corals in it. Once he got as big as a quarter I moved him to the sump. He met his untimly end one night when I unplugged the filter fearing my male seahorse would give birth while I was at work. I think that screwed with the tank, because he and the seahorses died shortly after. Looking back it would have been really cool to keep him in his own tank and see how big he really could get. When I took that picture he nipped me and drew blood! He was AWESOME!! He would just eat the leftover mysis, and flakes I fed the clowns.

 

[smoq]

That looks like some variation of a spider crab. That has to be hitchhiker of the year. Definitely not reef safe, and they grow huge.