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Just curious if anyone knew the type of acro this is.  I picked it up today at a little pet shop in central IL.  I thought it looked cool and had some potential when I saw it.  Looking at closer I found a little crab living on it.  I thought it was a damage to the coral before I saw it moving.

 

what do you think of the little crab? is it good or bad?

 

I think most acro crabs are beneficial. Give it some time to cause some destruction, then decide whether or not to remove it.

 

I think the coral is probably either a granulosa, toruosa or a loripes then again it could be anything. The white spots where from the guy bagging it to tight and handling it like crap. I think some might of been from that crab too. It seems to be a xanthid crab. Cymo melanodactylus They actually eat the coral polyps which I saw him doing last night.

 

Posted By RobynT on 04/16/2008 4:45 PM
If I saw him eating polyps, I would be getting rid of him.Well I banished him to the basement tank to hopefully eat xenia. 

 

This coral is coloring up a bit getting hints of purple and green.  I did find a couple more hitchikers on the right side of the main coral.  The one looks like a revers sunset.  The green one at the bottom right I have no idea on.

 

Here is a new pic of it.  This is kind of off color due to only having 2 Blue pluss lamps on at the time of photo.  The coral has a green body and purple tips now.  The new growth is whitish with purple tips.  It also has a good shot of the one hitch hiker too.