Advise for removing crab hitchhiker

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Hello! I run a 20 gallon tank with a few easy keeper corals. I’ve had the tank for close to a year now and last night I noticed a crab hiding between the rock work in my aquarium. Based on what I’ve read it’s rare for these guys to be beneficial and was wondering if anyone had advice for finding and catching these guys. I didn’t want to rip up my whole aquarium chasing it down. I don’t think I could bait him because my other inverts (serpent star and hermit crabs) would probably get the bait first. I couldn’t get a super good look at it but it was brown with hairy legs so I am assuming it’s a gorilla crab based on the pictures I saw online. any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
 

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