Say hello to my litte crab

Picked him up at SWE

Cool little porcelain Dan.

I was wondering when you were going to confess that you didn't leave empty handed. Looks like a promising addition to a tank.

Super cute! Do they always chill by nems or are they ok without them? I guess I don't know anything about them. That anemone looks huge in comparision to him!

They are really cool. I have had mine for nearly two months. He goes between my two nems, it is fun to watch him poke and prod the nem. They will jerk when he pokes them. I have watched food settle into them and he does not mess with the food, just filters the water with his arms. Speaking of, one of his claws broke off in transport. It took several weeks but he grew one back again. When he is in my rose bubble tip he is white an brown, when he scoots over to the fire anemone he turns white and red. Pretty cool.

GoingPostal wrote:Super cute! Do they always chill by nems or are they ok without them? I guess I don't know anything about them. That anemone looks huge in comparision to him!

It's best to have a Nems in the tank for them because they will have a better chance to servive, not only do they use Nems for protection Nems with there stinging slim coat trap planktonic foods which is the porcelains main diet, they can servive for month's and month's on scavenging food from the water column but over time most will usually starve to death in the Aquarium mostly if one uses a UV sterilizer and tries to keep there water under low nutrients, porclelains are filter feeding crabs and usually will do well in softy tanks because most softie tank do better under higher nutrient waters.

GoingPostal wrote:Super cute! Do they always chill by nems or are they ok without them? I guess I don't know anything about them. That anemone looks huge in comparision to him!

He stays in the nem all the time. and he is only 1in so you can see the nem is huge.