Crab on death row, can you save it?

[clarky2120]

Right now this crab is locked away in a bag floating in my tank awaiting sentencing.

In another forum it was a hung jury. So I came to this one to have a 2nd trial.

Can he go back to the rock where I found him? I don't have a sump or a refugium (else I would just throw it into that and be done) so this isn't a life without parole sentence it's a death sentence if found guilty. What's the verdict?

 

[skinz78]

Guilty make him walk the plank! I don't trust any crab, I've lost way too many fish to crabs.

 

[Dave3112]

AYE! He should walk the plank!

 

[clarky2120]

anyone know what kind it is? I've heard everything from emerald to gorilla to stone crab?

 

[Dave3112]

Not sure on the type but gorilla sounds right.

 

[droblack]

Depends on what you have in your tank, and how much you love it.

 

[Reloadeddevil]

Gulity!!!!!! Guilty!!!!!!!! Punishment to the full extent of the law.

 

[capt85]

I wouldn't trust him. Guilty! Don't let him escape in to your tank never to be caught again.

 

[reefaddictionrx]

+1 Guilty, almost looks like an emerald now... But he'll get bigger and then be a bigger threat in the future.

 

[Reef lvr]

Looks like a rock or stone crab.. Off with his head i say!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[_Alex_]

looks like a young gorilla crab to me... and they can be destructive!! a local shop some how managed to get 2 that were 4"+ in one of there displays.. took them over a year to getem both..

 

[Lateral72]

As a general rule of thumb on crabs..

Black and/or Sharp "Pincer" Claws = Bad


Yours having both, that's multiple strike-outs.

 

[Demonic]

Eat him!!!

 

[turbo21]

i say time for sushi..... the wife says keep him

 

[MadReefer1]

use it for bait and go catch a drum or sheepy

 

[jiffy]

I've had similar crabs eat my zoas and other soft corals.

 

[bluepit]

small gorilla crab. Feed him to a triggerfish.

 

[revhtree]

Guilty! But I vote to commute his sentence to a species tank or to someone else who wants him.

 

[aaronbrown]

send him here ill take him he can live in my sump

 

[extremehobbyist]

black claws = bad