Naughty or Nice?

[cowfish]

Best pic I could get. Is he an acro eater and if so how much damage can the little critter do?

 

[MIKE NY]

Eric is that critter on the new A.Loripes colony if so it's probably just a commensal, but it's hard to see it...maybe you can find it here...
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/coral_crabs.html

 

[ducati335i]

Blue eyes !!!!!!! Get it out will eat polyps right out of your Sps!!!! Had a couple in qt last yr, no good for sure,, I do have a safe one now..

 

[ducati335i]

Once again get it out.. You can prob inspect your Sps and u will see some polyps are sucked right out of it

 

[Jarrett]

i agree with ducati i had 2 acro crabs come in with my new corals so i did alot of research on them, and that guy is deff not a good crab

 

[MIKE NY]

it could be a bad guy, but I would be surprised because I never got a pest on any of the corals I've gotten from Mike....when in doubt take it out!

 

[cowfish]

I hate to do it because I love inverts but, upon close inspection of the coral, it looks like the little bugger is eating polyps . Not much damaage yet, but he's gonna have to go.

 

[cowfish]

Here's a better pic of the litte fella who is currently residing in an old food container.

 

[MIKE NY]

yup ...looks like a small Teddy bear..got to go.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Def acro eating crab I got 1 as a hitchhiker once

 

[Mattl22]

Had one recently cool little guy but had to go