New Friends within new live rock

Found some interesting things within my new piece of coral I bought today. First, I found a crab that buried itself in one of the crevices. From what i can see, it's got white and silver spots with hair on the legs and blue dots on the body. Still trying to figure out if this crab is herbivore or carnivore....no shell. Any ideas? I also found a micro-organism that looked like a florescent miniature shrimp with one shiny little eye. It was going up and down the inside of the coral. Any ideas as to what that is?

 

LionfishLair.com - Hitchhiker Guide to your Aquarium
Live Rock Hitch Hikers
Melev's Reef - Visual Identification

Welcome to 3reef.

The links above will help you in making some of the more common ID's for hitch hikers.

Crabs are hard to ID without an image.

Perhaps an old myth but hairy crabs or crabs with black tips to the claws are believed to be the most troublesome.

 

Thanks

Thanks for the resources...those are great.

He hasn't shown himself so I can take a pic....otherwise it would be up here. I'll post as soon as he becomes photo friendly. I have a feeling it'll be a crab that I don't want due to the very hairy legs.

 

Pic of Hitch Hiker

Here's a pic of the little guy

 

Thanks for trying to an image but I can not make an ID.

Yet another link specific to crab types.

SWCrabs

 

Crabs

thanks for the help....I'll let you know what it is when I find out.

 

When in doubt take it out!