Help me Identify this Crab

Got a clip of this guy doing a couple chops. Sometimes the chops are more pronunce....... It's funny as hell. enjoy!

Chop Chop The Crab

 

Deep Sea Images Library - Rough Box Crab - Calappa gallus - Natural History Images

Its a Rough Box Crab not reef safe comes from the west atlantic ocean (carribean)

 

Good work matt!

 

Thanks mate

 

MATT YOU DA MAN!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, Hmmmm me wonders why he's not reef safe? I think I'll leave him in there for now and watch him closely... That punk karate crab.

 

i dont have any idea what that is, but its cool. you should watch it closely, it could be eating something you dont want it to. if anyone hasn't said that allready.

 

tinfury, poke him with your finger and tell me if the pinchers hurt...lol... in fact, set up a camera so we can all watch your reaction! i'd also like to see a mantis shrimp in action, but that's another post another time...

 

good luck again

any other finds with the sand.

do you dig or scoop it, just curious if it stay near top or bottom

 

If you ever have to ask what type of crab is this then throw it out not worth the risk. I told a guy to do this yrs ago with a shamed faced crab came in larvae with L/Sand or a coral ? It was months later when he say it the first time and had it in his net. I told to chunk it he though that was cruel LOL well next time he saw it it had devastated his 500 gallon reef tank ate a few very expensive fish also..And then he tossed..

 

Twan013: Yea he did actually pinch me.... and it was pretty painfull. I haven't been bitten by a crab since I was a child. He ate a clam I found so I took him out of the tank and put him in with my mantis shrimp tank. The Mantis is eating him slowly one foot at a time. I actually have a video of my mantis in action taking down a fish. I'll put it up on my Hi5 video's so you can see it.

oliesminis: I'm not sure where it really came from. My tank broke!!!!!! And so I'm starting over. I some of my sand from about 3Meters below the surface in a awesome reef cove I go to sometimes. I got some more from a sand bar under the water and I got some from right up off the beach. He could have been from any of the three places. If I had to make a guess. I'd think that he came in from out of the sand I got from the deeper area.