anyone up for round 2 of good crab /bad crab from TBS live rock?

[Giraffe0621]

anyone up for round 2 of Good Crab/Bad Crab from TBS live rock (so Gulf of Mexico)? 1/2cm long

 

[94Roarge]

All crabs are good crabs except gall crabs!

 

[KJ]

Sump him.

 

[Bouncingsoul39]

How do you like that rock? Care to post some rock **** pics?

 

[cracker]

I personally don't trust any crab ! If they get hungry they will eat it .

 

[cracker]

I have some TBS came with a lot of differing life .

 

[Giraffe0621]

How do you like that rock? Care to post some rock **** pics?

Bouncingsoul39, I really like the TBS rock so far. It'll be 2 weeks tomorrow that Part 1 of "The Package" arrived, and it's been fascinating to watch.

Goods
-bunch of cerith snails, trochus snail & limpets
-TONS of feather dusters (attached to rock mostly, but a few loose guys who have made homes in the sand bed)
-oodles of barnacles who are still happily filtering 2 weeks in
-sponges (tons of different types -- only 2 of any real size had to be removed and that was within the first few days)
-2 black pencil(?) urchins
-cup corals (couple types)
-undetermined LPS

Bads/Unknown (?)
-few crabs -- no Gorillas so far, just undetermined species
-black eyed isopod - stil need to catch
-branching(?) or Zanclea(?) hydroids -- a few that I've physically removed, haven't seen since
-whelk snails -- easily removed
-freaky yellow/green worms - possible eunicids? - removed
-Florida brown nudibranch(?)

For photos, here's the few I have on my phone since I'm at work currently -- there are a few more & a short video I shot of it when it first arrived in my build thread (link below). I'm only using my older phone's camera, so sorry for the lousy quality!

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[Giraffe0621]

Sump him.

Silly question. By "Sump him" does everyone mean put him there temporarily, or is that a viable long-term plan for crabs, or other critters? There's chaeto & some smaller live rock pieces in there, and I can already see the pods crawling all over the sump wall. But if I kept him in there, do I feed him, or would he get enough just from the display tank as it flows to the sump?

 

[Kmsutows]

I think it looks ok by the claws and lack of hair

 

[KJ]

He get enough food from the display tank flows to the sump.

 

[KJ]

is that a viable long-term plan for crabs, or other critters?

Yes

 

[Cary]

Looks like a porcelin crab to me. IMO they don't think they cause any harm and they are very pretty.

 

[ThunderGoose]

I'm in the odd club of not being terrified by crabs. She doesn't look like any of the pest species so I'd leave her in the display at least for now.

I have a large emerald crab that started going after my coral and a hermit (Dexter) that cause The Great Hermit Crab and Snail Massacre of 2017. I do target feed Dexter pieces of crab. He's become quite "tame" and recognizes that when I get in the sump I often have food.

Love TBS The Package. Great rock and fun hitchhikers!