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hi i gt a crab here, hope someone can help me ID it..

when u pick it up or touch it, it'll "retract" (dunno whether its the right word) it's leg and camoflage itself as a pebble

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This is a teddybear crab wannabe :lol:

ok, I don't have its name but I do have a similar one in my display for several months.

Size about 2 inch. Like yours, it burrow in the sand.

Don't seem harmful to livestocks except its burrowwing activities displace lighter rockworks and corals.

Here's some actual teddybear crabs I've acquired in 2003.

Don't get your hope up though. Can't get them these days :)

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Hey Henry!

That's the crab I keep complaining about to you that I've got in my tank! The fellow who was dragging my sun corals and zoas to cover up it's hole, and eating up all my starfish/sand dollars!

Finally managed to catch it and release it into labrador park.

To the OP, here's an interesting read.

Friend or Foe - Crabs

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Hey Henry!

That's the crab I keep complaining about to you that I've got in my tank! The fellow who was dragging my sun corals and zoas to cover up it's hole, and eating up all my starfish/sand dollars!

Finally managed to catch it and release it into labrador park.

HAH!? Didn't cross my mine at that time that you have this fella 'cos they are from hawaii.

Those I've got was only the size of 10 & 20 cents coin max.

Didn't get to see them feeding on echinoderms though. . . . and yes, they do look cute & cuddly!

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HAH!? Didn't cross my mine at that time that you have this fella 'cos they are from hawaii.

Those I've got was only the size of 10 & 20 cents coin max.

Didn't get to see them feeding on echinoderms though. . . . and yes, they do look cute & cuddly!

Hahah...after this outpouring of love for this critter, I'm starting to feel like I should have kept it rather than release it back into the wild! Could have put it into the refugium of my 2 ft tank! :D

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ya so cute sia!!

esp the white one look so exotic :yeah:

hop mine can become liddat..pray for the fur to grow :P

No lah brudder. . . . the one you have is not teddybear crab so won't grow furry...

more like hairy and the only thing that will grow nicely will be its shell :lol::lol:

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Hahah...after this outpouring of love for this critter, I'm starting to feel like I should have kept it rather than release it back into the wild! Could have put it into the refugium of my 2 ft tank! :D

Hahaha... u just kanna teddy-withdrawal syndrome :lol:

guest the fella is singing 'under the sea' and enjoying all the starfishes at Labrador :upsidedown:

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