Anyone have experience with Strawberry Hawaiin Crabs or possible crab disease/fungus?

[mario8402]

I have a Strawberry Hawaiin Crab that I bought when my tank was first setup.. he has been living fine, hardly see him though since they are so shy..

I took him out about a month ago because I noticed some weird white things growing all over him.. kinda hard, but not hard to where I couldnt scrape them off, so I scraped it off with the tip of a butter knife..

I would almost describe it as a fungus maybe or even like a patch of spider eggs like when spiders lay them (but I know its not). I have a green emerald and it has not had this problem.. I rearranged the tank last night an noticed that it was back, what could it be? I thought I had some pics of it, but I must not have uploaded it to photobucket.. right now the crab is chillin in a rubbermaid with some LR until I can figure out what it is and if its the reason why all my fish die??

[mario8402]

heres are some pics from 3-21-07
he basically has this same white fungus looking stuff all over him.. I scraped it off last time, but it is back on... yes I know he missing some legs, I bought it like that and I thought they would have grown back on by now..





this one doesnt really show anything, i just thought it looked cool