Originally Posted by bolt696
Hey, I found this guy in my tank. Took almost 4 months to catch him. tried all kinds of traps with all different foods, never fell for it. When I went from my 55 to 125 I finally got the
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. He was the size of a silver dollar. He ate almost all my clean up crew. Every morning I would wake up and find a pile of shells. I beleive it is a gorilla crab but never confirmed it. This was huge. I am lucky I was wearing diving gloves because it crabbed my finger and would not let go for 30-40 seconds. Here is a pick, and the best one I have seen. End result, he took a nice swim down the toilet......
IMO, this does not look like a Gorilla Crab. The crab you flushed looks like one of the "cupped" not "pointed" claw crabs. I have one in my tank, he was a hitchhiker. He has not harmed anything in my tank and just scrapes the rocks to help clean up. At first he was tiny and very scared, would only come out at night. Then little by little he came out more, but was still very unsure about me walking by the tank. Now he couldn't care less. I can get right up to the tank and check him out. I have one Emerald Crab in there also. They look just about the same except for color of course. He only seems to scrape rocks and eat that, he doesnt touch any bubble algae or any other types of algae or corals for that matter. I consider him part of my clean-up crew. Nice picture of the crab BTW.
