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That’s crazy!! How did you end up catching him. I have a few I want to send to the sump.
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.
I wonder if this is the same crab in a juvenile phaseThis guy is huge, been trying to catch him for weeks. What the heck is this thing?
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).I wonder if this is the same crab in a juvenile phase